@hecate
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;

e.e. cummings

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as even the Science Men are coming to understand, is the Real, dimension.

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@hecate

She was considered "slow," and addressed as "goose."

This is the cruelty of which Daenerys spoke. And you are right: the humans who wielded this cruelty at Maria Bertilla Boscardin were wrong.

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Maria Bertilla Boscardin was born in 1888 into a Veneto peasant family where father drank and beat. She was considered "slow," and addressed as "goose." She worked peeling potatoes in a charity hospital. Until it was seen that she had a gift, for calming children with diphtheria, many of whom had undergone tracheotomies. Untrained; a healer. She worked with children considered too disturbed to be helped. But they weren't. When, in WWI, the humans debuted their new way of killing each other—with airplanes—she moved through the bombings, succoring casualties, those too frightened to move. She cared for soldiers with tuberculosis, with people stricken by Spanish flu. As she herself slowed with cancer. She died young. She is a lesson that anyone, anyone at all—even those mocked as slow geese—can do good work, can help people, and other living things. Today, she is a saint. As, always, she was. As, always, are you, too.

@thanatokephaloides But they don't see it that way. They just see them as an accessory.
I feel sorry for the squish-faced animals. Pugs, chihuahuas and bulldogs are arguments for human extinction, I say!

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It's funny... People love these sort of defects or abnormalities in animals, even breed for them in some cases,

Breeding animals for dysfunctional abnormalities is cruelty.

Example: The faces of Persian cats, which often interfere with their ability to breathe.

but the same traits in people are met with hate and disdain.

More cruelty on the part of certain humans.....