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On Cats by Doris Lessing5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() Here our two are when they were kittens, 4 years ago: the ginger tabby (marmalade, orange) cat is the boy, Ian who I wish we'd called Little Snuffy the tortoiseshell with green eyes (not blue) is the girl, Clarissa, who should have been called Marianne because of her passion for dead leaves. ![]() It might not attract much attention - like her Martha Quest series, or the once stunning Golden Notebook - or the profound Good Terrorist, or her memoirs, African stories, not to omit her journals and science fiction, not have much of a following. It really moved more than many professedly seriously emotional or comic books have in a long time: Doris Lessing's On Cats. One of them had me laughing aloud and at times close to tears. ![]() ![]() While riding on a train or car or (once) bus from place to place, I read books, each time one shoved into my handbag for when I was walking. The admiral and I were away this past week - in NYC and I've written a travel piece on our time there on Ellen&Jim Have A Blog, Two Three nights & days in Manhattan. Misssylviadrake"Knowing cats, a lifetime of cats, what is left is a sediment of sorrow, quite different from that due to humans: compounded of pain for their helplessness, of guilt on behalf of us all" - Doris Lessing, "Rufus the Survivor" ![]()
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