"A black cat dropped soundlessly from a high wall,
like a spoonful of dark treacle,and melted under a gate"
~Elizabeth Lemarchand-
CATS
Charles Baudelaire
Fervent lovers and austere scholars
Both love, in their mature season,
The powerful gentle cats, pride of the house,
Which like them are sensitive to the cold and sedentary.
Friends of science and ecstacy,
They search for silence and the horror of darkness;
Erebus would have taken them for his funeral steeds,
If they could bend their pride to slavery.
While dreaming they take the noble attitudes
Of great Sphinxes stretched out in the heart of the desert,
Which seem to sleep in an endless revery;
Their fecund loins are full of magic sparks,
And specks of gold, like fine sand,
Add vague stars to their mystical eyeballs.
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"The more you talk to cats...the smarter they become.
An occasional 'nice kitty' will have
no measurable effect; intelligent
conversation is required"
~Lilian Braun-The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare
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"No matter how much cats fight,
there always seem to be plenty of kittens."
~Abraham Lincoln~ |
