Get dressed for success
Here is one designer who knows what we want.
Well, well, well
Jean-Paul Sartre insisted that existence precedes essence but we all see that cats are so not part of that philosophy.
Wisława Szymborska
Here’s a lady who loved cats, one can tell from the poem Cat in an empty apartment - one does not do that!
Die—you can’t do that to a cat.
Since what can a cat do
in an empty apartment?
Climb the walls?
Rub up against the furniture?
Nothing seems different here
but nothing is the same.
Nothing’s been moved
but there’s more space.
And at nighttime no lamps are lit.
Footsteps on the staircase,
but they’re new ones.
The hand that puts fish on the saucer
has changed, too.
Something doesn’t start
at its usual time.
Something doesn’t happen
as it should.
Someone was always, always here,
then suddenly disappeared
and stubbornly stays disappeared.
Every closet’s been examined.
Every shelf has been explored.
Excavations under the carpet turned up nothing.
A commandment was even broken:
papers scattered everywhere.
What remains to be done.
Just sleep and wait.
Just wait till he turns up,
just let him show his face.
Will he ever get a lesson
on what not to do to a cat.
Sidle toward him
as if unwilling
and ever so slow
on visibly offended paws,
and no leaps or squeals at least to start.
When in Kórnik, Poland, you are invited to pause for a moment and relax with Szymborska and her cat.
Book buddies
Yes, cats increases your intellect.
Best reading program ever?
Children in grades 1-8 who are able to read at any level may come into The Animal Rescue League (ARL) of Berks County, Pennsylvania to read to the cats in the shelter.
Revolutionary science
First he invented the cat door for his favorite. Then he helped mankind with some laws. Sir Isaac Newton knew his priorities.
As the cat
As the cat
climbed over
the top of
the jamcloset
first the right
forefoot
carefully
then the hind
stepped down
into the pit of
the empty
flowerpot
William Carlos Williams
Yes, it is William holding a cat.
Frank Zappa – guitarist and cat guy
Marshmoff and Zappa. Marshmoff helped Zappa with some CD-covers, posing as fierce only a feline can.
Anonymous cat and Zappa. Perhaps this cat was the muse for “Yo Cats” or “Alley Cat“.
This could be Fighty-Bitey and the Zappas.
A very fine cat indeed
Hodge was Samuel Johnson’s favorite cat. Not only Johnson loved Hodge, Hodge has inspired other writers as well; e.g. Yvonne Skargon, Charlie Fletcher and Samuel Beckett.
Of cource there is a statue of Hodge outside his and Johnson’s house in London. Hodge guardening the dictionary.
