| Saturday, July 13, 2002 |
00:17 - Chunnel Across the Species Gap
http://hikeryote.blogspot.com/2002_07_14_hikeryote_archive.html#78928100
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I address the following to the set of (readers who own cats) + (Lileks). If your identity mask combines positively with this set definition, you must follow the link.
Hiker has just had a moment involving his cat, accomplishing-- well, maybe accomplishing isn't quite the right word for it; but doing something that has contributed another valuable fragment of data to the body of human knowledge about the mind of the cat, the feline body of knowledge about the human mind, and the fateful but impenetrable interaction between the two that has remained so fitfully static for so many thousand years.
It's confusing. It makes no sense. But it changes everything I thought I knew about my cat. I thought I was just this huge, lumbering force that delivered food unto her dish and occassionally offended her dignity by picking her up and showing affection. Now that there is a chance that she might respect me, albeit in some strange feline way, I must reassess how I behave in order to return that respect.
You're curious; I know you are.
And you know what a cat would do in such circumstances.
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