video description: a tiny, tubby orange and white kitten is rolling around on a patterned blanket. someone approaches him with an appropriately small brush and attempts to groom him, succeeding in brushing his side and tummy but then having to field his clumsy attempts at smacking the brush. he is so cute it is criminal.
i learned that in Egypt, to discourage necrophilia or “intercourse with a corpse”, ancient Egyptians left deceased beautiful women and wives of men of rank to decay for “three or four days” before giving them to the embalmers. (x)