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**Effopsytupt** · 04-07-2012, 11:12 PM

All this rigour you know.

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Humans are animals, and a lot of people, most even, are sleeping happily with their companion animal. All that sleeping, sex and grunting etc, seems animal to me.

My one-track mind thought, "rigour? rig ... oh, not rigor mortis ... thinking " ... sleep ... "

And I do like the explicit connection animals / humans, as we ARE.
I hesitate to generalise ... and feel a bit "exposed" even saying so, but perhaps one of the costly "refinements" of humankind is that making noise(s) seems shameful and so, inhibited.
This is not a considered comment ... made without much thought, but it occurs to me that (royal :P) we use "animal" perjoratively of noisy humans.
(this is a tangent and a distraction, I know ... but the seemingly uncomplicated and undemanding nature of companion animals (other than the human kind) might well be one of the reasons for greater comfort(ing) and even well-being.

dunno.

04-07-2012, 11:12 PM	#6
Effopsytupt Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 448 Senior Member	All this rigour you know. ... Humans are animals, and a lot of people, most even, are sleeping happily with their companion animal. All that sleeping, sex and grunting etc, seems animal to me. My one-track mind thought, "rigour? rig ... oh, not rigor mortis ... thinking " ... sleep ... " And I do like the explicit connection animals / humans, as we ARE. I hesitate to generalise ... and feel a bit "exposed" even saying so, but perhaps one of the costly "refinements" of humankind is that making noise(s) seems shameful and so, inhibited. This is not a considered comment ... made without much thought, but it occurs to me that (royal :P) we use "animal" perjoratively of noisy humans. (this is a tangent and a distraction, I know ... but the seemingly uncomplicated and undemanding nature of companion animals (other than the human kind) might well be one of the reasons for greater comfort(ing) and even well-being. dunno.
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