I don’t disagree with you on this but, and this is a weird position for me as an autistic person to be in, I think you might be taking it a bit too literally? (Never thought that I, me, would get to be the one saying that to someone else)
Clearly the cat is very fantasy coded. It’s a talking cat which is wise.
I feel like this is a metaphor for the artist talking about something probably internal to them where the cat represents their composed, adult self and the child represents their inner child so this feels like an internal conversation within the artist being externalised.
Obviously that’s just how I’m interpreting it but it feels like the gloom is setting in on the artist who is, on one level, going “Welp, here we go again…” and on a deeper level the artist is saying “Wait, it’s coming back? Again? What are we gonna do?? 🥺”
That’s possible, I just decided for whatever reason that it wasn’t likely to be an internal psycho-drama like that. I think because it was saying “we” and not “you,” suggesting (but not denoting) that it is its own patient and not just some figment of the artist’s mind or internal toybox, but you’re right that it could be that they are both meant to be patients via both being the main character, meaning the “we” is more literally an “I” and I was indeed being too literal in my interpretation of the dialog, too.
Anyway, I am glad I gave you the opportunity to tell someone that ;)
I don’t disagree with you on this but, and this is a weird position for me as an autistic person to be in, I think you might be taking it a bit too literally? (Never thought that I, me, would get to be the one saying that to someone else)
Clearly the cat is very fantasy coded. It’s a talking cat which is wise.
I feel like this is a metaphor for the artist talking about something probably internal to them where the cat represents their composed, adult self and the child represents their inner child so this feels like an internal conversation within the artist being externalised.
Obviously that’s just how I’m interpreting it but it feels like the gloom is setting in on the artist who is, on one level, going “Welp, here we go again…” and on a deeper level the artist is saying “Wait, it’s coming back? Again? What are we gonna do?? 🥺”
That’s possible, I just decided for whatever reason that it wasn’t likely to be an internal psycho-drama like that. I think because it was saying “we” and not “you,” suggesting (but not denoting) that it is its own patient and not just some figment of the artist’s mind or internal toybox, but you’re right that it could be that they are both meant to be patients via both being the main character, meaning the “we” is more literally an “I” and I was indeed being too literal in my interpretation of the dialog, too.
Anyway, I am glad I gave you the opportunity to tell someone that ;)
I could easily be convinced of this interpretation. Who knows for sure?
This historic moment is gonna be forever memorialised in my diary lol