Saturday, January 30, 2016

On the same cat, sunning herself, on the same spot, again

  On the same cat, sunning herself, on the same spot, again

    Will you look at that cat … !
    Can you top that ??
    I can’t !



[Appendix from English literature]

The lady-mother of the kitten  sat sunning her white bosom
in the window,
and looked round  with a sleepy air of expecting caresses,
though she was not going to take any trouble for them.
-- George Eliot, Silas Marner (1861)

And, with the sunlight itself  being depicted as a cat:


All the windows in the villa were open.  Sunlight made itself comfortable in unexpected corners of the room.
-- Vladimir Nabokov, King, Queen, Knave (1968), p. 227


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