alien encounters
Feb. 28th, 2025 12:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
itrytobea genuine diary extract:
"I tend to think of the cat as basically a small, weird, and very dumb person. But sometimes I remember/realise that it's actually a small* animal that lives in my house, whose motivations are incomprehensible to me, whose thoughts are entirely unknowable and completely different from mine, whose gaze is alien. Not in a scary way, just in a Realisation way.
Not really a small animal, all things considered. I'd guess the average animal is less than 1 cm long. Think of all the insects and nematodes..."
"I tend to think of the cat as basically a small, weird, and very dumb person. But sometimes I remember/realise that it's actually a small* animal that lives in my house, whose motivations are incomprehensible to me, whose thoughts are entirely unknowable and completely different from mine, whose gaze is alien. Not in a scary way, just in a Realisation way.
Not really a small animal, all things considered. I'd guess the average animal is less than 1 cm long. Think of all the insects and nematodes..."
