‘An ape, a most ill-favoured beast. How like us in all the rest?’

Cicero

‘When I come home late at night from banquets, from social gatherings, there site waiting for me a half-trained little chimpanzee and I take comfort from her as apes do. By day I cannot bear to see her; for she has the insane look of a bewlidered half-broken animal in her eye; no one else sees it, but I do and I cannot bear it.’

Kafka, A Report to the Academy