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作家的宠物情缘
很多作家与宠物之间有着深厚的感情，因为作家能够向这些安静忠实的聆听者尽情倾吐他们丰沛的情感。于是便有了很多作家与宠物的经典照片：站在马克·吐温肩膀上的小猫、骑在美国女作家伊迪丝·华顿双肩上的两只小狗、海明威和蹲在桌子上的猫……
Portraits of Writers with Pets: the Humanizing Animal Connection
作家的宠物情缘
By Emily Temple 吴悠 选 温纯 注Get Flash Player
To us, it’s always seemed as though pets attach themselves to artists (and vice versa , of course) in greater numbers than to regular folks. Maybe it’s the pull of a constant, silent listener to bounce ideas against, or the boundless soul of the writer. Either way, pictures of famous authors and their pets are humanizing and adorable, so we’ve collected a few of them here.
1. Dorothy Parker and her dog Misty“Why, that dog is practically a Phi Beta Kappa . She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw—I don’t say she will but she can.” See also: “Verse for a Certain Dog.”
2. Edith Wharton with double pups“My little dog—a heartbeat at my feet.”
3. John Steinbeck and Charley“I've seen a look in dogs’ eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.”
4. Mark Twain and shoulder kitty“Some people scorn a cat and think it not an essential; but the Clemens tribe are not of these.”
5. Virginia Woolf and her dog Pinka“This you’ll call sentimental—perhaps—but then a dog somehow represents—no I can’t think of the word—the private side of life—the play side.”
6. Fl