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The kitten is busy with her toy mouse. All pricked ears and wispy tail she gives her vivid performance of hunter and prey. She knows of course that she is handling a dead object. But in a corner of her mind lurks handed down cat knowledge, which maintains that the very nature of play is to breathe life into things passive; by force of imagination as well as literally, with swift paws.
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Combüchen, S. (1993). Playing, writing, wrestling. In: Åkerman, N. (eds) The Necessity of Friction. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-95905-9_12
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