Thursday, September 6, 2012

The Lovecats: Celebrating Man’s Very Best Friend on International Cat Day


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Oh! fond farewell to savages and explorations!—in grasping, during the brief intervals in which our species can bring itself to interrupt its hive-like activity, the essence of what it was and continues to be, below the threshold of thought and over and above society: in the contemplation of a mineral more beautiful than all our creations; in the scent that can be smelt at the heart of a lily and is more imbued with learning than all our books; or in the brief glance, heavy with patience, serenity, and mutual forgiveness, that through some involuntary understanding, one can sometimes exchange with a cat.
–Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)Fans in a falshbulb

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