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Garrison Keillor

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

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Garrison Keillor suggests that some things in nature, like cats, exist simply for their own sake rather than serving a practical purpose. This challenges the idea that every natural thing must have a clear function or reason for being.

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