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Just about everyone I know seems to be finding everything a bit tough at the moment.
So here's a thread of writers with their pets (and those of us who have pets know how much of a comfort they are to us at the moment.)
1/ William S Burroughs and Ginger
So here's a thread of writers with their pets (and those of us who have pets know how much of a comfort they are to us at the moment.)
1/ William S Burroughs and Ginger
2/ Virginia Woolf and Pinka
3/ Raymond Chandler and Taki
4/ Ernest Hemingway and cat
5/ Flannery O'Conner and one of her peacocks
6/ John Steinbeck and Charley
7/ Dorothy Parker and Misty
8/ Kurt Vonnegut and Pumpkin
9/ Mark Twain and kitten
10/ William Faulkner and dogs
11/ Tennesse Williams and Sabbath
12/ Maurice Sendak and Herman
13/ Stephen King and Marlowe
14/ My favourite - Jean-Paul Satre and his cat called Nothing
15/ Truman Capote and dog
16/ John Cheever and dogs
17/ Samuel Beckett with Murphy and Watt
18/ Gertrude Stein and Basket (the one in the middle)
19/ Edward Albee and Poochi
20/ Ezra Pound and cats
21/ Georgia O'Keeffe and her Chow
22/ Allen Ginsburg and cat
23/ George Orwell and his goat Muriel
24/ Albert Camus and his cat Cigarette
25/ Edith Wharton and her ear muffs
26/ Jorge Luis Borges and his cat
27/ V.S. Naipaul and his cat Augustus
and adding to this, a most beautiful piece of writing on grief https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01/06/the-strangeness-of-grief
28/ Aldous Huxley and Limbo
29/ Edward Gorey with Harp, Brown and Company
30/ Jean Cocteau with Madeleine
31/ Francoise Sagan and her cat
32/ Franz Kafka with his dog
