Sunday, September 19, 2010

William S. Burroughs: The Cat Inside


I have eulogized the fennec fox, a creature so delicate and timorous in the wild state that he dies of fright if touched by human hands. The red fox, the silver fox, the bat-eared fox of Africa...all beautiful beasts. Wolves and coyotes in the wild condition are acceptable. What went so hideously wrong with the domestic dog? Man molded the domestic dog in his own worst image...self-righteous as a lynch mob, servile and vicious, replete with the vilest coprophagic perversions...and what other animal tries to fuck your leg? Canine claims to our affection reek of contrived and fraudulent sentimentality. The Old Shepherd's chief mourner. Took three days to find the old fart and by then the dog had eated his face off. Looks up with a shit-eating grin and rolls in carrion.

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