For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... {S}ix months before she died I sent a Mother's Day card. There was a horrible, mushy poem in it. I remember feeling vaguely guilty.
William S. Burroughs
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In the latter part of her life, the author's mother resided at a nursing home named Chateins in St. Louis. This period was marked by a sense of loss and reflection as the author grappled with their relationship and the changes that come with aging. It highlights the emotional struggle many face when confronted with the declining health of a loved one.

Six months prior to her passing, the author sent...

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Like most qualities, cuteness is delineated by what it isn't. Most people aren't cute at all, or if so they quickly outgrow their cuteness ... Elegance, grace, delicacy, beauty, and a lack of self-consciousness: a creature who knows he is cute soon isn't.
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William S. Burroughs The Cat Inside
There is a kidney-shaped fish pool outside the picture window. I cleaned it out and put in some large goldfish I bought in a bait store. The cats are always trying to catch the fish, with no success. One time the white cat leapt for a frog across the pool. The frog dove in and the cat fell in. He is trouble-prone.
For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... {S}ix months before she died I sent a Mother's Day card. There was a horrible, mushy poem in it. I remember feeling vaguely guilty.
William S. Burroughs The Cat Inside
For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... {S}ix months before she died I sent a Mother's Day card. There was a horrible, mushy poem in it. I remember feeling vaguely guilty.
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William S. Burroughs The Cat Inside
And there are my cats, engaged in a ritual that goes back thousands of years, tranquilly licking themselves after the meal. Practical animals, they prefer to have others provide the food ... some of them do. There must have been a split between the cats who accepted domestication and those who did not.
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William S. Burroughs The Cat Inside
The white cat symbolizes the silvery moon prying into corners and cleansing the sky for the day to follow. The white cat is the cleaner or the animal that cleans itself, described by the Sanskrit word Margaras, which means the hunter who follows the track; the investigator; the skip tracer. The white cat is the hunter and the killer, his path lighted by the silvery moon. All dark, hidden places and beings are revealed in that inexorably gentle light. You can't shake your white cat because your white cat is you. You can't hide from your white cat because your white cat hides with you.
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