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- From: bcapps@agora.rain.com (Brent Capps)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss,rec.pets.cats
- Subject: gayfolk and cats
- Message-ID: <BxMys9.8vL@agora.rain.com>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 03:52:54 GMT
- Organization: Open Communications Forum
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- My office occupies a spare bedroom at the back of the house. The
- top of my desk comes right up to the bottom of one of the windows.
- It's a good sunny spot with a high view of the birds and squirrels
- and flowers and such in the backyard.
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- In short, it's a cat-place.
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- While I work on the computer, Westheimer is lord of the desktop.
- Sometimes he intently watches the resident bluejay foraging for tasty
- bugs in the garage gutters. Other times he sits on the mouse pad and
- stares out the window...contemplating his sins, I suppose. Occasionally
- he prominades back and forth in front of the computer screen, tail pressed
- majestically against the underside of my nose.
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- Stealthily he creeps into my lap, curls up and goes to sleep.
- I never seem to see him do this, I just look down and there he is.
- Such is cat majik.
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- What is it about gay people and cats? Why do these independent, selfish,
- aloof creatures strike such a chord with us? I used to be a dog-person,
- but now I'm a confirmed cat lover, largely because of the Bombay mix purring
- in my lap right this very moment.
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- I believe that there is something about cats, something very basic and
- primal, that strikes a chord with gayfolk. As frequent victims of the
- brutish and uncultured, we appreciate their grace and beauty of form.
- As a group that has been told who to love and who not to love, we admire
- their defiance; their love must be is earned, and can never be compelled.
- As a people who have learned to survive, we respect their tenacity and
- force of will; we understand about claws, and when it's time to flee.
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- All I can add is this: when darkness closes in and jungle creatures
- lurk all around, cats remain unpreturbed but watchful.
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- Survive, and enjoy tomorrow's sunlight.
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- Brent, marveling at how a sleeping Westheimer has managed to make himself
- perfectly square and cover every exposed millimeter of the heat
- register without hanging a single hair over the edge into the
- unheated part
- --
- Brent Capps | I could love anything on earth
- bcapps@agora.rain.com (gay stuff) | that appeared to wish it.
- bcapps@atlastele.com (telecom stuff) | -- Lord Byron
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