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To shift to something with a bit more joy about cats, I am sharing this website--<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://lithub.com/15-great-cat-poems-not-written-by-cats/__;!!KGKeukY!mJvOsgo0iEif06KWXT2CANAmR4JlLyne84PBn4koSlEI18n320iCmu4tnNXqNzyH8_k$" style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">https://lithub.com/15-great-cat-poems-not-written-by-cats/</a>--which features
a lovely illustration with at least 30 cats and kittens and also includes an excerpt from Christopher Smart on the topic of "[For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffrey]" and Rebecca Hazelton's "Love Poem for What It Is." </div>
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Trigger warning: some of the poems are almost as grisly as the instances of cat abuse mentioned in previous emails, but some are very inspiring and respectful in the depiction of felines. </div>
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Vara</div>
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<div class="PlainText" style=""><font face="'Times New Roman', Times, serif" size="3" style="">Vara Neverow<br>
Department of English<br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces@lists.osu.edu> on behalf of Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf <vwoolf@lists.osu.edu><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, February 9, 2021 3:06 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> vwoolf@lists.osu.edu <vwoolf@lists.osu.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Vwoolf] Cats and Mary Ellen</font>
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<div>We have become more civilized: we no longer take pleasure in tying cats to spits and slowly roasting them over fires, as French aristocrats used to do for fun in eighteenth-century France, wrote Leonard Woolf. Where? Probably not in his autobiography.
Probably in “After the Deluge” (2 vols) or “Principia Ethica” (i.e. vol. 3 of the former).</div>
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