On Aug 3, 2007, at 6:36 PM, Doug wrote: > Their lives are way too short, aren't they? > > I'm very sorry for your loss, Ronn!
Today Chris Clarke passed the six-month anniversary of the death of his beloved dog, Zeke. He lit a candle for him. Some of us did the same, in our way. <http://faultline.org/index.php/site/comments/halb_yahrzeit/> Those who say "it's just a cat" or "it's just a dog" just won't understand. <http://indigestible.nightwares.com/2007/03/05/no-euthanasia-after-all/> <http://www.nightwares.com/mira/> HP Lovecraft wrote of a place called Ulthar, a land wherein it was forbidden to kill a cat, because they were sweet companions and they guided the souls of travelers through the dark, cold spaces inhabited by the Elder Ones. And Hart Crane, in "Chaplinesque", wrote of love's sweetness in the nature of purring innocence. > We make our meek adjustments, > Contented with such random consolations > As the wind deposits > In slithered and too ample pockets. > > For we can still love the world, who find > A famished kitten on the step, and know > Recesses for it from the fury of the street, > Or warm torn elbow coverts. > > We will sidestep, and to the final smirk > Dally the doom of that inevitable thumb > That slowly chafes its puckered index toward us, > Facing the dull squint with what innocence > And what surprise! > > And yet these fine collapses are not lies > More than the pirouettes of any pliant cane; > Our obsequies are, in a way, no enterprise. > We can evade you, and all else but the heart: > What blame to us if the heart live on. > > The game enforces smirks; but we have seen > The moon in lonely alleys make > A grail of laughter of an empty ash can, > And through all sound of gaiety and quest > Have heard a kitten in the wilderness. Never, ever "just a cat" or "just a dog". -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http://www.nightwares.com/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
