Unraveling the Enigma: How Rebecca van Laer’s ‘Cat’ Whispers Secrets You Won’t Forget
But right when you think this book is just about cats, van Laer reminds you what it’s really about.
“Is this really what other people want? To work? To strive toward excellence? I want to live in a world without work, or at least a lot less of it.”
It’s here, and at key points in each taut and brief chapter, that van Laer tells the real truth of the cat — that our love of this animal, which rebukes our directions, which does what it wants when it wants, which has its own boundaries and its own understanding of time, is more about our own desire for meaning, acceptance, and love than it is about the animal itself.
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