Brain Food #363
The pure love of dogs
Daily Brain Food.
Thoughts of the day
I recently finished reading the exquisite, and highly recommended, The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy. It is a golden collection of thoughts and memories, seamlessly woven together through crafty writing.
She often brings in the thoughts of others, and in a moment where she stops to admire the loyalty of her kind neighbour’s dog, she recalls this quote by Sigmund Freud, which I thought would be a shame not to share with you:
“Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their object-relations.”
Painting by Picasso, of his dog Lump: “Lump, he’s not a dog, he’s not a little man, he’s somebody else.” The dachshund died just ten days before Picasso, on March 29th, 1973.