One of the greatest things on earth is when you’re talking to someone you sort of know and they quietly switch from talking about human friends or family members to talking about their cats. It’s great because there’s often no meaningful alteration in tone to tell you something has changed. Cats are frequently introduced into conversation the same way a person might start talking about an intermittently beloved uncle who’s just out of prison. Cats are often delightful reprobates and oddballs. They’re needlessly, inventively cruel, or inhumanly calm and forbearing, or they’re ostentatiously silly. One will sit on the landing and swipe at everyone. Another will hide under a bath mat, certain that they have attained complete invisibility. They are known by their names but also by their behaviours.
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