Here she is a bit more accurately.
She often sits on my lap when I'm writing, and stays very alert, with her paws tucked under her at the desk, and sticks around for much longer than you'd expect. I guess the bright computer screen and the tap-tap-pitying on the keys keeps her awake.
Sometimes, she'll slowly lean forward further and further until I suddenly notice a paw on the space bar and another paw reaching for other keys. Like she has an idea! Let HER finish the scene!
"Or what about MY story?" She thinks to herself.
You know she's got a story.
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the cat's story...in Uwe Johnson's account of Gesine Cresspahl's life in NYC called "Anniversaries", first published in the late 1970s if I remember correctly, he calls memory a cat- "die Katze Erinnerung". I always liked that.
And because this is this year's end there is always Alice who asks another rather ephemeral creature important questions:
"'Cheshire Puss', she began rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name: however it only grinned a littler wider. 'Come, it's pleased so far', thought Alice, and she went on. 'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?' 'That depends a good deal on where you want get to' said the Cat.
'I don't much care where-' said Alice. 'then it doesn' t matter which way you go' said the Cat. 'so long as I get somewhere', Alice added as an explanation."
For my part, tomorrow night I am going to have a dinner that's got a title like a book: Gute Vorsaetze- New Year's resolutions and Happy New Year of the Rat 2008!
O says hello and:
-There is a book by a crazy poststructuralist philosopher - her name is Sarah Kofman- that's called "Writing like a Cat".
-Beatrix looks Egyptian.
and:
-this Egyptian cat is only interested in the computer's mouse.
She does look like a sphinx. Ah, looking back centuries, when she was a God...she'd would have had someone taking notes...and orders for dinner.
Well, when we got her, she'd recently been scooped up off the streets of Brooklyn, where she'd been rambling around with her five sisters (a crew the cat rescuers nicknamed "The Cuddle Bunch" because they were so overly cuddly. AWWWW). Now, who is to say the Cuddle Bunch didn't sneak off a flight from, say, Egypt Air? Does that sound totally possible? TOTALLY!! OK, Beatrix is now officially Egyptian.
beautiful drawing!
love how its bare and highly cross hatched at the same time
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