domestic animal, n.Definitions

The Domestic animal (n.) belongs ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠to the house and serves it — yet not the way the roof does against storms.

Domestic animal (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the homme-sick beast: living with man, it is shaken, however briefly, by unconscious seismic tremors.

A Domestic animal (n.) lives ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠alongside us, though we do not live alongside it; we are with it, but this being-with is no existing-with, since a dog does not exist and only lives.

A Domestic animal (n.) was ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠probably among the first inventions: a tool you do not build but capture and train, one that keeps its spontaneity and goes on reproducing itself.