Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Ailurofobia


Publicada por Miguel Madeira em 11:44

4 comments:

Filipe Abrantes said...

Tinham mesmo medo ou apenas não gostavam de gatos? Essas "fobias" às vezes são equívocas, como "homofobia" ou "xenofobia" (não me parece que a maioria dos ditos homófobos ou xenófobos tenham medo de homossexuais ou de estrangeiros).

22:08
Miguel Madeira said...

Segundo o texto

"that's not to say that they didn't much care for cats or held felines to be inferior to, say, dogs or horses; allegedly, they were palm-sweatingly, spine-tinglingly, stomach-churningly terror-struck by pussycats. "

mas também

"Evidence to back up these historical whispers is hard to come by - that's not to say it doesn't exist, but, frankly, there aren't enough hours in my life to trawl through tomes on much-examined historical figures in search of passing references to moggies. Someone who has looked into the matter is Katharine MacDonogh, author of Reigning Cats And Dogs: A History Of Pets At Court Since The Renaissance (St Martin's Press, 1999). She writes, "No record exists of Napoleon either liking or hating cats", and I believe her, because the book is extensively indexed, and MacDonogh is, in fact, a historian, rather than someone who just happens to like cats a great deal."

23:14
mescalero said...

Isso quer dizer que não pensas conquistar o mundo? :)

00:56
Filipe Abrantes said...

Sabemos que os ditadores gostam de seres vivos que lhes sejam dependentes e servis. Nada de espantoso que não gostem de gatos.

PS: Sócrates tem gato? cão?

15:03

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