Louis Wain's zane-zanen cat mai rikitarwa

'Yan shekarun da suka gabata, kafin Toxoplasma gondi, wanda ke haifar da cutar toxoplasmosis, kuma zai iya shafar mutane, mutanen da suka mallaki kuliyoyi ana musu lakabi da "mahaukaci." Kamar dai yadda a yau akwai waɗanda ke raba zane-zanensu na kuliyoyin halittar mutum ta hanyar Intanet, Ingilishi na zamanin Victoriya ma sun iya ganin ɗan ɗan rikice-rikice na zane-zanen. Louis wani, waɗanda aka haɗa zane-zanensu a cikin mujallu na lokacin, littattafan yara da kan katunan rubutu.

Wannan mutumin ya yi imanin cewa ya sha wahala daga cutar schizophrenia, kuma a zahiri, ba shi da rayuwa mai cike da farin ciki, saboda kawai shekaru uku bayan ya auri wata mata mai suna Emily Richardson, wani ciwon sankara ya raba su har abada. Ma'aurata a wancan lokacin suna da baƙar fata da fari, Peter, wanda Wain bai rabu ba.

Wain an haife shi ne a Landan a 1860, kuma ya halarci Makarantar Landan ta Yammacin Turai. Bayan aiki na ɗan lokaci a matsayin malami, sai ya zama mai zane mai zaman kansa. Kuma ya kasance mai son cat. Da yawa don waɗannan dabbobi zasu ci gaba da ayyana aikin sa. Aikin da ba zai zama ba tare da takaddama ba, tunda ya jawo waɗannan ƙa'idodin sanye da tufafi, wasan golf, karanta littafi... wani abu da ba al'ada bane a waɗancan lokutan.

Duk da komai, aikinsa ya shahara sosai, kamar yadda ɗaruruwan littattafan yara ke nunawa, da jaridun jaridansa masu ban dariya waɗanda ya bari a New York. Daya daga cikin masoyansa shine HG Wells, mawallafin marubucin almara na kimiyya.

Ko bayan mutuwarsa a 1939, zane-zanensa har yanzu suna jan hankalinmu a yau. Masanin tabin hankali Walter Maclay na ɗaya daga cikin waɗanda suka fara nazarin su, yana mai gaskata cewa zane-zane taga ne a cikin zuciyar mai haƙuri. Shekaru da dama an yarda cewa Wain ya kasance mai zane tsakanin »cute da mahaukaci». Daga baya, a cikin 1966, New York Times ya rubuta labarin game da zane-zanensa tare da taken 'The Progress of a Disease, sanannen jerin zane-zanen da Louis Wain, wani mai zane-zanen London wanda ya kamu da cutar schizophrenia a tsakiyar shekaru, ya nuna lalacewar hankali na mai zane »

Ba tare da wata shakka ba, kuliyoyin da Wain ke da su a duk rayuwarsa abokai ne na kwarai.