cats & ephemera

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"A puzzled orangutan standing next to TV set playing the image of Pres. Richard Nixon as commentator discusses his 17- page message to Congress, during a study of ape TV addiction at Yerkes Primate Research Center of Emory Univ."

well, naturally.

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"You knew you had become comfortable when you told him that you watched Jeopardy on the restaurant TV and that you rooted for the following, in this order: women of color, black men, and white women, before, finally, white men--which meant you never rooted for white men. He laughed and told you he was used to not being rooted for, his mother taught women's studies."

- "The Thing Around Your Neck," Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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this is for you, yomo7.

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vogue uk, december 1975

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us vogue, december 1963

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underwater ballet, 1945

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1943, rio de janeiro

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"The illustration shows how a mouse has climbed up [twelfth-century scribe] Hildebert’s table and is eating his cheese. Hildebert lifts a stone in an apparent attempt to kill the mouse. In the book that he was writing, we find a curse directed at the cheese-nibbling beast: “Pessime mus, sepius me provocas ad iram; ut te deus perdat” [Most wretched mouse, often you provoke me to anger. May God destroy you!]"

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cat pawprints on 15th c manuscript

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US vogue march 1973