September 10, 2004
Cats vs People
A pretty small 'we'
Two rather moving quotes from W. Burroughs, both of which I am in profound sympathy with (even more so their conjunction), and which demonstrate how the most corrosive nihilism can coinhabit (or is even identical) with the most powerful love and generosity:
1. "I feel very little empathy with most people. And so when you speak of 'we', it would have to be a pretty small 'we'. Most 'we's' you can count me out of."
2. "Cats reflect you in a very deep way. They just opened up a whole area of compassion in me. I remember lying on my bed weeping and weeping to think that a nuclear catastrophe would destroy them."
Posted by robin at September 10, 2004 02:50 PM
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