barking

The remarkable thing about Percy Edwards was his ability to mimic animal noises convincingly. Accurate enough for the film industry to regularly employ him to overdub sound effects for countless movies over three decades. If this ability wasn’t special, no doubt he would have passed away in relative obscurity. He could have been the exception which proves the rule: why keep a dog and bark yourself?

The smartest riposte I heard a colleague give to a meddling architect was; Please allow me to know my job.