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"They weren't pecking his eyes out, but still it was startling, and it inspired her imagination and led her to conceive a story in which flocks of birds systematically and mysteriously turn aggressive and attack humans in a series of mounting assaults. Her story was set in Cornwall after World War II, and she made a bold choice as an author not to offer any explanations for the birds aggression. So story was not tied up with a neat bow."
