Lovecraft on Cats

“[The cat] is for the man who appreciates beauty as the one living force in a blind and purposeless universe…who seeks a proud and beautiful equal in the peerage of individualism…

The cat is for him who does things not for empty duty but for power, pleasure, splendour, romance, and glamour – for the harpist who sings alone in the night of old battles, or the warrior who goes out to fight such battles for beauty, glory, fame, and the splendour of a land athwart which no shadow of weakness falls.”

– H.P. Lovecraft, Something About Cats, 1937


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