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Article: `Bodies in Motion and At Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality,' Thomas Lynch; W.W. Norton.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- July 12, 2000
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The cat is dead.
But not at writer Thomas Lynch's hand, though those who have already read his latest, bracing series of essays, "Bodies in Motion and at Rest," might well have wondered.
"For now let me say, simply and for the record, that I've hated the cat. And that I hate the cat. Furthermore, I am, at this very moment, hating the cat and tomorrow will be hating the cat some more," he writes in the essay "Y2Kat." No amo, amas, amat for this particular animus, it seems.
Yet the "fat, old, lazy, gray she-cat" that belonged to his middle son is the inspiration for a standout essay in the new collection, a rant that captures Lynch's strengths as ...