“What I meant to say, well, your work downstairs, it makes me want to see the animals alive. It makes me think of how they’re beautiful, and what they do, and how they’d look moving, and what it means that they’re dead. And it’s interesting in the way anatomists’ pictures are, too. To see them in detail as you can’t do when they’re alive. It’s about…showing what things really look like.” “Yes,” Mr. Green said, a single, intense syllable. “Whereas this badger, or the kittens playing cards, that’s an insult to the animal. It’s turning them into a joke and taking away their, their dignity by
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