Amakati amaningi we-Toed Polydactyl
U-Ernest Hemingway wayengumuntu omangalisayo, onamakhono amaningi nezintshisekelo. I-Nobel Prize winner ibonakala njengomunye wama-novelist amakhulu aseMelika ekhulu lama-20, futhi uyaziwa ngemisebenzi efana ne-"A Ava Arms Arms" ne "The Old Man noLwandle."
Wazalwa ngo-July 21, 1899, eCicero, e-Illinois, eHemingway wayekhonza njengomshayeli we-ambulensi eMpini Yezwe I futhi wasebenza enkulumweni ngaphambi kokushicilela iqoqo lakhe lezindaba "Esikhathini Sethu." Ngo-1953, i-"The Old Man and the Sea" yakhe yathola umklomelo wePulitzer.
UHemingway wazibulala ngoJulayi 2, 1961, eKetchum, Idaho.
Uthando lwe-Hemingway Amakati
U-Hemingway naye wayengumdlali ongenamahloni angenamahloni ngoba wayemhlonipha umoya nokuzimela kwamakati. U-Hemingway wathola ikati lakhe lokuqala ephethe induna yomkhumbi e-Key West, eFlorida, lapho ehlala khona iminyaka eminingi. Leli khati, okungenzeka liyiMaine Coon , lalinamathoyizi engeziwe (ngokwaziwa ngokuthi i-polydactyl, isiLatini "yezinombolo eziningi"). Namuhla, cishe amakati angama-60, ingxenye yawo yama-polydactyl, enza ikhaya lawo e-Ernest Hemingway Museum nasekhaya, e-Key West, evikelwe yimigomo yentando yakhe.
Namuhla, iHemingway House, njengoba yayibizwa njalo, iphakamisa izimali ngokuthengisa izincwadi zikaHemingway nezinye izikhumbuzo, ngisho nokuhlinzekela imishado yangasese yazo zonke izinhlobo.
Okungenani amanye alawo makamu lapha anzalo ka-cat yokuqala ye-Hemingway futhi anikezwa ngamagama angamaqiniso, njengoba ayekwenzile, emva kwezinkanyezi ze-movie kanye nezinhlamvu ezincwadini zakhe.
Amakati e-Hemingway Museum athandwa kakhulu futhi aziwa kakhulu, ukuthi igama lesidlaliso elithi "Hemingway Cats" livame ukunikezwa kuma-polydactyls.
Iyini i-Polydactyl?
Umkhuba we-polydactyl uvela esakhiweni esiyinhloko, futhi kuphela ikati le-polydactyl lingenza umzali omunye i-polydactyl. Nakuba i-Maine Coon (okhokho babo abacatshangwa ukuthi baye bahamba emikhumbi yase-US) kukholelwa ukuthi bekuyilohlobo lokuqala lokuba nalolu hlobo, i-polydactyly ibhekwa njengephutha kulolo hlobo, futhi nakanjani kuzo zonke ezinye izinhlobo ngaphandle kwaPixie -Bob , uhlobo olusha kakhulu.
Ngakho-ke, esikhundleni sokuzalwa , i-polydactyl ingumkhuba wofuzo, okufana nezofuzo zephethini yamathebhu. Esikhundleni sezinyawo eziyi-18 ezivamile (ezinhlanu ngezinyawo zangaphambili nangemuva kwangasese) ezitholakala kumakati amaningi, ama-polydactyls aneminwe eyisithupha noma ngaphezulu emanzini angaphambili, futhi ngezinye izikhathi inzwane eyengeziwe ngemuva. (Ikati eliboniswa esithombeni sokuqala linezinzwane eziyisikhombisa ngaphambili, okwenza kube lula ukuqonda ukuthi kungani kuthiwa ngezinye izikhathi ngokuthi "Ama-Mitten.") Nokho, ngokungafani ne-tabby ethandwayo, iphethini lawo lingatholakala ezinhlotsheni eziningi, i-polydactyl kubonwe ngabalobi obhalisiwe. Kungani? Ngokusho kukaBarbara French, nakuba kungenabungozi ngokwemvelo, kungenzeka ukuthi izinzwane ezingaphezulu zingase zingasebenzi kahle, mhlawumbe ngezinzwane ezimbili ezifakela phansi noma ngezingwenya ezingenayo.
Nakuba kungavunyelwe ngokuthi "ama-purebreds," i-polydactyl iyakuthandwa ngabangane babo abangabantu. Kungakhathaliseki ukuthi ubizwa ngokuthi "ama-polydactyls," "ama-Hemingway Cats," noma "ama-Mittens," la makakati amaningi anamahloni atshisa izinhliziyo nezinyanga zalabo bantu abanelungelo lokuhlanganyela ikhaya elilodwa.