Nobel Prize-winning cat lady
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Doris Lessing has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Best known for The Golden Notebook, Lessing also wrote stories about cats: Particularly Cats and Rufus the Survivor, and The Old Age of El Magnifico. Here’s a bit from Rufus.
“Events did cast their shadow, months before. All that spring and summer, as I went past on the pavement, a shabby orange-coloured cat would emerge from under a car or from a front garden, and he stood looking intently up at me, not to be ignored. He wanted something, but what? Cats on pavements, cats on garden walls, or coming towards you from doorways, stretch and wave their tails, they greet you, walk a few steps with you. They want companionship or, if they are shut out by heartless owners, as they often are all day or all night, they appeal for help with the loud insistent demanding miaow that means they are hungry or thirsty or cold. A cat winding around your legs at a street corner might be wondering if he can exchange a poor home for a better one. . .”
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
October 13th, 2007 at 06:30
your koosi looks so much like my morganna!
October 13th, 2007 at 08:40
I once read in one of those yahoo featured article, that cats usually attract unfriendly people.
Once, i got attacked by a cat. What does it mean then? Am i a friendly person, the cat despise my true personality? Or am i TOO UNFRIENDLY, the cat was so eagerly to show some love. I am confused.
October 14th, 2007 at 14:17
Yep, gotta love that Doris Lessing…
;)
October 30th, 2007 at 21:29
Hi Jessica! I’m a cat lover myself. You can check out this great book called “The Feline Mystique” by Clea Simon, which is all about the connection between women and cats. :)