when_species_meet [re.search.notes]

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'I know that D&G set out to write not a biological treatise but rather a
philosophical, psychoanalytic, and literary one requiring different reading
habits for the always nonmimetic play of life and narrative. But no read-
ing strategies can mute the scorn for the homely and the ordinary in this
book. Leaving behind the traps of singularity and identity is possible
without the lubrication of sublime ecstasy bordering on the intensive
affect of the 1909 Futurist Manifesto. D&G continue, “Anyone who likes
cats or dogs is a fool” (240, italics in original). I don't think Deleuze here
is thinking of Dostoevsky's idiot, who slows things down and whom
Deleuze loves. D&G go on: Freud knows only the "dog in the kennel, the
analyst's bow wow." Never have I felt more loyal to Freud. D&G go even
further in their disdain for the daily, the ordinary, the affectional rather
than the sublime.' - page 29


'It is a relief to return from my own flights of fancy of becoming-
intense in the agility World Cup competitions to the mud and the slime
of my proper home world, where my biological soul travels with that
wolf found near the edge of the forest who was raised by scientists.' - page 30