not too much

There is still some chaos to be sorted out in my study after moving with James into our new apartment just one year ago. While cleaning out a corner, I came across this picture on a postcard I bought years ago. It reminds me of how much I would love to have a cat (which is impossible, because I live in an an apartment and am horribly allergic to cat hairs) to share my love of books.

Je souhaite dans ma maison: Une femme ayant sa raison, Un chat passant parmi les livres Des amis en toute saison Sans lesquels je ne peux pas vivre. "I wish to have in my home: a woman of reason, a cat among the books, friends for every season without which I cannot live." "The cat" in Le Bestiaire ou Cortè d'Orphée, by Guillaume Apollinaire, first published by Deplanche, 1911; illustrated by Raoul Dufy, woodcut, 33.0 x 25.2 cm. This is the cover of the reproduction published by David R. Godine (Boston, 1980)