"One becomes animal all the more when the animal dies; and contrary to spiritualist prejudice, it is the animal who knows how to die, who has a sense or premonition of death. Literature begins with a porcupine's death according to Lawrence or with the death of a mole in Kafka" --Gilles Deleuze ('Literature and Life')
Nabarun Bhattacharya in the dedicatory preface to his Bangla short story 'Andho Beral' ['Blind Cat'] which I have translated into English for our forthcoming Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry Nabarun Supplement, writes the following:
"This story is dedicated to the memory of the cat ‘Gola’. His brief life was permeated with many loves and neglects from my end. Even his death taught me a lesson. Mortally ill, one night, he went away on his own to experience his death. No one saw him after that."
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