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Un vétérinaire en colère - Essai sur la condition animale

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“So those three milking under the trees seemed actually present to me for an hour. As Giles 'tugged' (how his polite diction slips from him when he gets down to the job) he would see what I saw, gazing up into that elm; gleams of near-crimson lighting the budding tips of the boughs, boughs that go gesturing up mightily form the trunk, then curve over and hang down delicately. For the eye dwells on a thing as one milks, a bit of bruised concrete, a big spider in a cobweb up in the cowhouse roof; I can see them yet. To look up into such a maze of boughs day by day, and see the bare wood bursting open with new life: wine-dark buds, then the first green, till later he sat under a roof of the small elm leaves scattering coin-like shadows all around him, such would have been Giles's lot.”

“Había descubierto muchas cosas con ellos y no todas tenían que ver con las terminaciones nerviosas de mi cuerpo. Muchas hablaban de esa sensación que te invade cuando no te importa ser imperfecta delante de alguien. Decir «no lo sé» y que nadie te haga sentir inferior, que se pregunte las cosas junto a ti. Decir «qué a gusto estoy» y que nadie huya, sino que sonría y lo comparta. Decir «esta soy yo» y que nadie apunte diez maneras de ser mejor.”