Another Insane Devotion
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NOTES
Chapter 1
8 A “prey-like” moving dummy: Patrick Bateson, “Behavioural Development in the Cat,” in The Domestic Cat: The Biology of Its Behaviour, ed. Dennis C. Turner and Patrick Bateson, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 17.
12 And Juan was mad about her: James Salter, Light Years (San Francisco: North Point Press, 1982), 87.
14 “They were so miserable”: Ibid., 125.
15 “Like a master or an illness”: Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way, trans. C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin (New York: Random House, 1981), 249–250.
Chapter 2
27 “To approach the soul”: Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove, trans. C. K. Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin (New York: Random House, 1981), 1009.
31 Versus 80 for nonbreeding “subordinates”: Olof Liberg et al., “Density, Spatial Organization and Reproductive Tactics in the Domestic Cat and Other Felids,” in Turner and Bateson, The Domestic Cat, 126.
33 “Out of the puddly concupiscence of the flesh”: Augustine of Hippo, Confessions, trans. Albert Cook Outler (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1955), bk. II, ch. 2.
37 “You are emptying the world so we can be alone”: Frank O’Hara, “Now That I Am in Madrid and Can Think,” The Selected Poems of Frank O’Hara (New York: Vintage Books, 1974), 174–175.
42 “Because it was forbidden”: Augustine of Hippo, Confessions, trans. J. G. Pilkington (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1876), bk. II, ch. 4, 30.
Chapter 3
62 “Under the same terms”: Theodore Evergates, ed. and trans., Feudal Society in Medieval France: Documents from the County of Champagne (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993), 41–42.
63 “To the day of my death”: Philippe Ariès, “The Indissoluble Marriage,” in Western Sexuality: Practice and Precept in Past and Present Times, ed. Philippe Ariès and André Béjin (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985), 151–152.
63 “Marriage is established”: Cited in Conor McCarthy, Marriage in Medieval England: Law, Literature, and Practice (Melton, UK: Boydell Press, 2004), 22.
64 Fourteen out of seventeen theologians said she could: Jean-Louis Flandrin, “Sex in Married Life in the Early Middle Ages: The Church’s Teaching and Behavioural Reality,” in Ariès and Béjin, Western Sexuality, 119.
72 “When he is thrown from a high place”: Dorothy Hartley, trans., Lost Country Life (New York: Pantheon, 1979). Available online at http://www.godecookery.com/mtales/mtales07.htm.
73 “As patient as a cat whose paws are being grilled”: Robert Darnton, The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History (New York: Basic Books, 1984), 83, 90–91.
75 A “deputy kitten”: Cited in B. Mike Fitzgerald and Dennis C. Turner, “Hunting Behavior of Domestic Cats and Their Impact on Prey Populations,” in Turner and Bateson, The Domestic Cat, 155.
Chapter 4
81 “To draw attention to it”: Augustine of Hippo, Confessions, trans. Henry Chadwick (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991), bk. I, ch. viii, 11.
81 John Bradshaw and Charlotte Cameron-Beaumont identify some of these below: John Bradshaw and Charlotte Cameron-Beaumont, “The Signalling Repertoire of the Domestic Cat and Its Undomesticated Relatives,” in Turner and Bateson, The Domestic Cat, 71 (simplified by the author).
92 Cats performed worse than pigeons: Patrick Bateson and Dennis C. Turner, “Postscript: Questions About Cats,” in Turner and Bateson, The Domestic Cat, 236.
94 “The impulse leading to the successful movement”: E. L. Thorndike, “Animal Intelligence: An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals,” Psychological Review 2, no. 4, Monograph Supplements No. 8 (New York: MacMillan, 1898).
95 They began staying longer: Carlos A. Driscoll et al., “The Near Eastern Origin of the Desert Cat,” Science (July 27, 2007): 317, 519–522.
95 “Escapes by his dallying”: Christopher Smart, “Jubilate Agno.” Available online at http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15798.
96 Five feline Eves: Driscoll et al., “The Near Eastern Origin of the Desert Cat.”
98 Called attention to it as an individual: J. D. Vigne et al. “Early Taming of the Cat in Cyprus,” Science (April 9, 2004): 304.
100 “Our mental photographs of it are always blurred”: Proust, Within a Budding Grove, 528.
107 “As having originated in ourselves”: Ibid., 655.
111 “Or lover of wisdom”: Plato, Symposium, trans. Benjamin Jowett, The Internet Classics Archive, http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/symposium.html.
111 “Even for a moment”: Ibid.
112 “Is called love”: Plato, Phaedrus, trans. Benjamin Jowett, Greece.com, http://www.greece.com/library/plato/phaedrus_01.html.
113 “But was afraid to be free of it”: Augustine, Confessions, trans., Henry Chadwick, 107.
113 “With the bodily senses”: Ibid., 62.
113 Is mere indigence: Ibid., 278.
115 “As unstable as a dream”: Proust, Within a Budding Grove, 631.
Chapter 5
143 “After the rest of it had gone”: Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, ch. VI, Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science, http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rgs/alice-VI.html.
145 “To take (in the widest applications)”: http://scripturetext.com/genesis/20-2.htm.
151 He feels ashamed: Jacques Derrida, The Animal That Therefore I Am, ed. Marie-Louise Mallet, trans. David Wills (New York: Fordham, 2008), 3–11.37.
163 “But the indenture of a man”: Plato, Symposium.
Chapter 6
174 “They are mourning the dead”: Peter Metcalfe and Richard Huntington, Celebrations of Death: The Anthropology of Mortuary Ritual, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 55.
175 “Because at this point the Maestro died”: John Rizzo, “Why Didn’t Puccini Finish Turandot?,” Italian Opera Company of Chicago, http://italianoperachicago.com/interior/Articles/Verdi/Why%20didn%27t%20Puccini%20finish%20Turandot.htm.
Chapter 7
194 “Paler than / dry grass”: Sappho, “Fragment,” in Sappho: A New Translation, trans. Mary Barnard (1958; rpt. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), 39.
195 We never met again: Gerald Stern, “Another Insane Devotion,” in Early Collected Poems: 1965–1992 (New York: Norton, 2010), 386.
Chapter 8
217 “That crowd around it”: John Ruskin, Modern Painters, Part III (1856; rpt. Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing, 2005), 151.
217 “Where men fall and rise not again”: Quoted by Phyllis Rose, Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984), 54.
218 “Not formed to excite passion”: Ibid., 55.
218 “He was disgusted with my person”: Vanessa Thorpe, “What Was John Ruskin Thinking on His Unhappy Wedding Night?,” The Observer, March 13, 2010, http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/mar/14/john-ruskin-wedding-effie-gray.
231 “Smeared out in equal parts”: Erwin Schrödinger, “Die gegenwärtige Situation in der Quantenmechanik [The Present Situation in Quantum Mechanics],” Naturwissenschaften (November 1935). Cited at http://www.phobe.com/s_cat/s_cat.html.
232 “That makes one cling to a woman”: Salter, Light Years, 205.
232 “It cannot be regained”: Ibid., 205.
Chapter 9
239 How did she know it would work?: The extent to which cats consciously manipulate their owners calls for further research. In 2009, scientists at the University of Sussex discovered that cats use different purrs to solicit food and express pleasure: the former contain a high-frequency component similar to that found in the cry of a human baby. Humans who listened to recordings described the solicitation purrs as more urgent than the other kind and less pleasant. Karen McComb et al., “The Cry Embedded
Within the Purr,” Current Biology 19, no. 13 (July 14, 2009): 507–508.
241 “That belongs to the rat family”: Mauny de Mornay, Livre d’eleveur et du propriet
aire d’animaux domestiques (Paris: A. L. Pagnerre etc., Editeurs, 1837), 287. Facsimile edition available at http://books.google.com/books?printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:%22animaux+domestiques%22&lr=&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=1800&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=1880&cd=36&pg=PA287&id=tBkGwxXqxpgC&num=100&as_brr=1#v=onepage&q&f=false.
Chapter 10
255 “But people / stop anyway”: Ishmael Reed, “Untitled,” in New and Collected Poems, 1964–2007 (New York: Thunder’s Mouth, 2007), 131.
255 “And apparently abandoned”: Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle and Other Selected Stories (New York: Tor, 1993), 7. Available at http://www.bartleby.com/195/4.html.
256 “Whether he was himself or another man”: Ibid., 8.
256 “I can’t tell what’s my name, or who I am!”: Ibid., 8.
Chapter 11
264 “The density blinds one”: Salter, Light Years, 23.
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