Cat behind the window

“The cat I am talking about is a real cat […] It doesn’t silently enter the room as an allegory for all the cats on the earth, the felines that traverse myths and religions, literatures and fables.”
Jacques Derrida

We have domesticated many animal species, shaped them to our liking. However, cats have remained themselves. If domestication happened, then they have domesticated themselves… or us.

independence . freedom

In 19th century Paris, “rather than embracing an animal who helped to instantiate man’s dominion over nature,” the dog, bohemians and intellectuals allied themselves with the cat, who shared the same values.
Monica Flegel

cats in cat videos don’t care about the camera
no guilt . shame . nudity
uninhibited . careless . pleasure . comfort

“For he will do
As he will do
And there’s no doing anything about it.”
T.S. Eliot

“When street traffic dwindles and most people are sleeping, some New York neighborhoods begin to crawl with cats. They move quickly through the shadows of building; night watchmen, policemen, garbage collectors and other nocturnal wanderers see them — but never for very long. […] The roving, independent, self-laundering cats of the streets live a life strangely different from New York’s kept, apartment-house cats.”
Gay Talese

cats behind windows
a little bit bourgeoisie
homeliness . safety
on the edge of the wild

watching . observing . listening . stillness
Eckhart Tolle

until the fridge opens, or the vacuum cleaner comes to life