ELIF AYITER
THINGS DESIGNED BY COMPANION SPECIES
AS MUST ALREADY BE EVIDENT FROM THE RATHER SCURRILOUS PERSONAGE THAT I HAVE CHOSEN TO REPRESENT THE SPECIES, I DO NOT HOLD OURSELVES IN TERRIBLY HIGH REGARD: ONE EYED TO DENOTE AN OBNOXIOUS SINGLE MINDEDNESS, TEETH TO DENOTE THE PREDATORY INSTINCT - THIS IS MORE OF A NASTY OLD CURMUDGEON RATHER THAN THE WONDROUS CREATION THAN WE USUALLY LIKE TO CONSIDER OURSELVES TO BE.
TO FURTHER THE POINT, I WILL NOT BE COMPLIMENTARY WHEN IT COMES TO THE VISUAL MATERIAL OF THE IDENTITY THAT THE HUMAN PARTNER OF THE EQUATION APPLIES TO THE PRODUCTS. WE HAVE IMAGERY FROM TWO PSEUDO-SCIENCES (PHRENOLOGY AND PALMISTRY) WITH WHICH OUR HOMUNCULUS CHOOSES TO DECORATE CLOTHING, HOME, COMESTIBLES AND OBJECTS...
“THERE ARE MOMENTS, JEEVES, WHEN ONE ASKS ONESELF, 'DO TROUSERS MATTER?'"
"THE MOOD WILL PASS, SIR.”
― P.G. WODEHOUSE, THE CODE OF THE WOOSTERS
AT HOME
“PERHAPS HOME IS NOT A PLACE BUT SIMPLY AN IRREVOCABLE CONDITION.”
― JAMES BALDWIN, GIOVANNI'S ROOM
“A HOME WITHOUT A CAT — AND A WELL-FED, WELL-PETTED AND PROPERLY REVERED CAT — MAY BE A PERFECT HOME, PERHAPS, BUT HOW CAN IT PROVE TITLE?”
― MARK TWAIN, PUDD'NHEAD WILSON
APPEARANCE
SUSTENANCE
INDULGENCE
