Monday, May 23, 2022

Pasttime or Food?


Miguel de Montaigne:

“When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not making me her pastime more than I make her mine?"

[Montaigne. 1592. In Defense of Raymond Sebond. Chapter II, Section 3, Man's superiority over the animals a delusion based on pride.]

Artist: Carolita Johnson, The New Yorker, September 2018