Like talking to animals in baby voices, the asinine side of identity (as with embarrassing talk that ascribes traits as inherent qualities) or in this case becoming-feline is explored as an alternate path to the one presented in the first part of the Private Fall duet.  Other than being a flea brain in a cat’s body or having a flea brain in a man’s body, Schitzolini drives humorously toward something else in this piece that responds to the inane human obsession with over-identification as a way to ensconce the flea-brained mind and prevent it from entertaining complex thought.  As Aldous Huxley put it in The Devils of Loudon, “From insulated selfhood there are many ways of escape into a larval condition of subhumanity.  This state partakes of Nothingness…But for many persons, absolute Nothingness is not enough.  What they want is a Nothing with negative qualities, a Nonentity that stinks and is hideous…precisely Nothingness-with-a-vengeance.”

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