/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.19181098]

post writers with cat

[Anonymous No.19181103]

(this is Ungaretti btw)
here is René Char

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Georges Perec
you may also post cat-related texts

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Joseph Kessel

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Pierre Drieu la Rochelle

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Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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VS Naipaul

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Françoise Sagan

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Yeats

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Twain

[Anonymous No.19181167]

>>19181149
What's that little fellas name?

[Anonymous No.19181181]

I like cats
I like writers
Therefore I like this thread.

[Anonymous No.19181196]

>>19181167
Nyarlathotep

[Anonymous No.19181233]

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>>19181152
I was ready to call cats for faggots, but I'll admit, you have demonstrated with this thread that cats are actually kino.

[Anonymous No.19181290]

Bukowski proposes a ménage a trois.

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Beckett

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Pound

[Anonymous No.19181728]

Pierre Klossowski, ???, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault

[Anonymous No.19181750]

Wtf? What about dogs?
Are writers cat people?

[Anonymous No.19181770]

This is a very good thread. Thank you anon.

[Anonymous No.19181795]

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[Anonymous No.19181797]

>>19181098
Hrabal with cats

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Ekelund

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Malraux with a climbing kitten

[Anonymous No.19182032]

>>19181098
Don't care if you don't like
that cat is cute as fuck

[Anonymous No.19182437]

>>19181098
cat

[Anonymous No.19182459]

>>19181750
Naturally, one’s preference in the matter of cats and dogs depends wholly upon one’s temperament and point of view. The dog would appear to me to be the favourite of superficial, sentimental, emotional, and democratic people—people who feel rather than think, who attach importance to mankind and the popular conventional emotions of the simple, and who find their greatest consolation in the fawning and dependent attachments of a gregarious society. Such people live in a limited world of imagination; accepting uncritically the values of common folklore, and always preferring to have their naive beliefs, feelings, and prejudices tickled, rather than to enjoy a purely aesthetic and philosophic pleasure arising from discrimination, contemplation, and the recognition of austere absolute beauty. This is not to say that the cheaper emotions do not also reside in the average cat-lover’s love of cats, but merely to point out that in ailurophily there exists a basis of true aestheticism which kynophily does not possess. The real lover of cats is one who demands a clearer adjustment to the universe than ordinary household platitudes provide; one who refuses to swallow the sentimental notion that all good people love dogs, children, and horses while all bad people dislike and are disliked by such. He is unwilling to set up himself and his cruder feelings as a measure of universal values, or to allow shallow ethical notions to warp his judgment. In a word, he had rather admire and respect than effuse and dote; and does not fall into the fallacy that pointless sociability and friendliness, or slavering devotion and obedience, constitute anything intrinsically admirable or exalted. Dog-lovers base their whole case on these commonplace, servile, and plebeian qualities, and amusingly judge the intelligence of a pet by its degree of conformity to their own wishes. Catlovers escape this delusion, repudiate the idea that cringing subservience and sidling companionship to man are supreme merits, and stand free to worship aristocratic independence, self-respect, and individual personality joined to extreme grace and beauty as typified by the cool, lithe, cynical, and unconquered lord of the housetops.

[Anonymous No.19182495]

>>19181167
Neighbor's Spam

[Anonymous No.19182607]

>>19181129
another

[Anonymous No.19182633]

>>19181167
Blackmanman

[Anonymous No.19182648]

>>19181167
Felis (it's Frank Belknap Long's cat)

[Anonymous No.19184134]

>>19182437
Why this cat look like he's about to shoot heroin in a pension, then fuck a Moroccan teenage boy?

[Anonymous No.19184168]

Good thread

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>>19182459
al dente

[Anonymous No.19184251]

>>19181149


the man wrote an entire essay on the debate of cats vs dogs. heres a few notable excerpts:

> Between dogs and cats my degree of choice is so great that it would never occur to me to compare the two. I have no active dislike for dogs, any more than I have for monkeys, human beings, negroes, cows, sheep, or pterodactyls; but for the cat I have entertained a particular respect and affection ever since the earliest days of my infancy. In its flawless grace and superior self-sufficiency I have seen a symbol of the perfect beauty and bland impersonality of the universe itself, objectively considered; and in its air of silent mystery there resides for me all the wonder and fascination of the unknown. The dog appeals to cheap and facile emotions; the cat to the deepest founts of imagination and cosmic perception in the human mind. It is no accident that the contemplative Egyptians, together with such later poetic spirits as Poe, Gautier, Baudelaire, and Swinburne, were all sincere worshippers of the supple grimalkin.

>These boorish slaves of eastern darkness could not tolerate what did not serve their own cheap emotions and flimsy purposes. They wished a dog to fawn and hunt and fetch and carry, and had no use for the cat’s gift of eternal and disinterested beauty to feed the spirit. One can imagine how they must have resented Pussy’s magnificent reposefulness, unhurriedness, relaxation, and scorn for trivial human aims and concernments. Throw a stick, and the servile dog wheezes and pants and shambles 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 somebody 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. The dog barks and begs and tumbles to amuse you when you crack the whip. That pleases a meekness-loving peasant who relishes a stimulus to his sense of importance. The cat, on the other hand, charms you into playing for its benefit when it wishes to be amused; making you rush about the room with a paper on a string when it feels like exercise, but refusing all your attempts to make it play when it is not in the humour. That is personality and individuality and self-respect—the calm mastery of a being whose life is its own and not yours—and the superior person recognises and appreciates this because he too is a free soul whose position is assured, and whose only law is his own heritage and aesthetic sense

https://hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/essays/cd.aspx

[Anonymous No.19184909]

Brodsky

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>>19181098

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>>19181750
good writers are

[Anonymous No.19186261]

>>19182459
very nice analysis

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>>19181728
Your mystery man is one of the most passionate writers on cats: William Burroughs.

[Anonymous No.19186768]

>>19184251
Based lovecraft

[Anonymous No.19186861]

>>19181728
??? is Maurice Blanchot

[Anonymous No.19186873]

>>19181750
YES.
t. The Yellow Dwarf

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>>19182459
Not reading all that but dogs require discipline and intelligence to properly train which is why artists, who are lazy manchildren, need cats.

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>>19181167
I believe his name is Nigger :)

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bump

[Anonymous No.19189697]

>>19181167
I actually don’t think the cat in that photograph is the infamous “Niggerman” I’m afraid

[Anonymous No.19189708]

>>19182032
>And sho mishter bond, zhe shigma devishe *sniff* izh beyond your meddling, *sniff* and sho on and sho on

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>>19181750

>>19182459
Cringe.

[Anonymous No.19190591]

best thread

[Anonymous No.19190647]

>>19181167

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NIGGERMAN

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>>19189721
he was a complicated man

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>>19181797
More like hairball

[Anonymous No.19191967]

>>19184251
>The cat, on the other hand, charms you into playing for its benefit when it wishes to be amused; making you rush about the room with a paper on a string when it feels like exercise, but refusing all your attempts to make it play when it is not in the humour.
So the cat is basically a woman?

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>I hope you will not suspect me of making a bid for his affection, when I remark that the Average Man loves the Obvious. By consequence (for, like all unthinking creatures, the duffer's logical), by consequence, his attitude towards the Subtle, the Elusive, when not an attitude of mere torpid indifference, is an attitude of positive distrust and dislike. The Average Man ostentatiously loves the Dog. The Average Man, when he is not torpidly indifferent to that princely animal, positively distrusts and dislikes the Cat. The Cat is a Princess of the Blood, because everything nice in this world, everything fine, sensitive, distinguished, everything beautiful, everything worth while, is of essence Feminine. The Dog, on the contrary, is not even a gentleman. Far otherwise. In his rough coat; in his harsh, monotonous voice; in the stiff-jointed clumsiness of his movements; briefly, in the all-pervading plebeian commonness that hangs about him like an atmosphere, bears he not an hundred marks of his base descent?
>In the Average Man's sentimental attitude towards the Dog and the Cat, we have a formula, a symbol, for his sentimental attitude towards many things, especially for his sentimental attitude towards Books. Some books, in their uncouthness, their awkwardness, their boisterousness, in their violation of the decencies of art, in their low truckling to the tastes of the purchaser, in their commonness, their vulgarity, in their total lack of suppleness and distinction, are the very Dogs of Bookland. The Average Man loves 'em. Such as they are, they're obvious. And other books, by reason of their beauties and their virtues, their graces and refinements; because they are considered finished; because they are delicate, distinguished, aristocratic; because their touch is light, their movement deft and fleet; because they proceed by omission, by implication and suggestion; because they employ the demi-mot and the nuance; because, in fine, they are Subtle other books are the Cats of Bookland. And the Average Man hates them or ignores them.

[Anonymous No.19195484]

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[Anonymous No.19196128]

He wrote some books

[Anonymous No.19196183]

>>19196128
Lenin’s got a good looking pussy but that’s colourised—I own a Soviet picture book that’s in.

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>>19196183
oh really, thats how you could tell

[Anonymous No.19196377]

>>19196128
Maybe the one on your book is using a black and white filter? You ever thought about that? Huh?

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>>19196377 meant for >>19196183
am retarded

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>>19184251
All this effectively tells us is that HP didn't understand or appreciate the benefits of a good cuddle.

[Anonymous No.19196771]

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>>19181750
Thw two writers who chose dogs instead of cats are celine and dfw.

Tells you everything you need to know.

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>>19196771
I don't know what that tells me but there are two pictures in this very thread of Celine and his cat.

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>>19181750
dogs are fucking pathetic

[Anonymous No.19198126]

>>19190647
ANON NO

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>>19181233
not liking cats is one of my top 3 people filters

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>>19196426
Wasnt he famously afraid of intimacy.

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