Show pageOld revisionsBacklinksBack to top You've loaded an old revision of the document! If you save it, you will create a new version with this data. Media Files==== On Animal faith ==== Excerpts from {{:dust_and_shadow:clark-animal-faith.pdf|"On Animal faith"}} by **David L. Clark** ---- <blockquote>Zoë refuses to make me food and in that gesture of inhibition she makes a thought of me rather than a meal. My hand amid her pressed incisors is a thought. How strange! So I am thinking of the thoughts of this creature before me, the one in whom I wager a confidence, and who wagers one with me, the other animal who takes with her teeth yet elects not to bite, much less to eat (or eat in a certain bloody or unseemly way), and thus submits herself to a ritual or regulation that in effect creates a world in which we two animals dwell alone, together, at that moment, we two, vivre ensemble, playing at biting and being bitten among the meat-eaters, both feline and human. What we are doing together is not nature, is it? But does that make it culture? Perhaps that indeterminacy will be our shared Umwelt.</blockquote> ---- {{dust_and_shadow:nkvnib.jpg}} ---- Dust and Shadow Reader [[reader_2|Vol. 2]]. Previous: [[admiration and care]]. Next: [[olufsenandi]] Please fill all the letters into the box to prove you're human. Please keep this field empty: SavePreviewCancel Edit summary Note: By editing this page you agree to license your content under the following license: CC Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International dust_and_shadow/on_animal_faith.1578028428.txt.gz Last modified: 2020-01-03 05:13by nik