Despite a heavy presence of strong, feline characters throughout his work, I never truly realized how strongly H.P. Lovecraft felt on the matter of cats vs. dogs. Another among the dozens of reasons why we love him. Throw a stick, and the servile dog wheezes and pants and stumbles to bring it to you. Do the same before a cat, and he will eye you with coolly polite and somewhat bored amusement. And just as inferior people prefer the inferior animal which scampers excitedly because someone else wants something, so do superior people respect the superior animal which lives its own life and knows that the puerile stick-throwings of alien bipeds are none of its business and beneath its notice.
Posted on: Sat, 05 Apr 2014 23:15:26 +0000
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