August 1, 2025

Ignite — 8/1/25

Today, a quote about cats from Hippolyte Taine is featured on the home page of Spark and Spitfire. Like me, you probably don’t know that Taine was a French historian, critic and philosopher. He was also the chief theoretical influence on French naturalism and one of the first practitioners of historicist criticism.

Huh? Who cares? I want to know how many cats he had.

#1

“Have you tried turning it off and taking a nap?”

#2

“I’ll call my tech guy.”

#3

“I can’t decide whether to nap right now or in ten minutes.”

#4

“What immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry?”

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