Why did the chicken cross the road?

29 July 2015

Things have been rather quiet at Joyfallee of late, which has given Hildegard von Joyfallee some time to catch up on a few philosophy texts. Prompted by the writings of Sartre and Camus she has been led to ponder the great existential question “Why am I a chicken?”. Perhaps somewhat swayed by the French influence, to date the best answer she has formulated is “Because I am not a baguette”.

She has attempted to engage her chicken comrades in this philosophical mind game with limited success. They seem largely more interested in questions like “Where is the oat cup?” and “What time is breakfast?” Hildegard has yet to turn her intellectual interrogation to the issue of chickens and their reasons for traversing roads.