Cat Tales
"Cat said, 'I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant.
I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave.'"
- Rudyard Kipling, from the "Just-So Stories"
A purfect description of a cat's view of the world as any human has ever made.
I like to start with a satirist whose work embodied the truest Spirit of the Absurd:
Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001) The world has lost one of its best crusaders for embracing the absurd. Everything else is Vogon Poetry.
Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all. ~Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
There is a particular disdain with which Siamese cats regard you. Anyone who has walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will be familiar with the feeling. ~Douglas Adams
It's not so much disdain as pity. Well, with a Siamese, it's probably disdain. Maybe he should've gotten a moggy cat.
Gloriously absurd, from the master of absurdity in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Adams embraced both absurdity and cats.
Cats in Classic Literature
Aesop's Fables:
Belling the Cat Impossible solution indeed. Silly mice.
The Cat-Maiden I don't know that is fair they only gave her a day. Then again maybe a day was enough and she wanted to be herself again.
There are many more Aesop's Fables about cats. Look them over. It's interesting to note how current the messages feel, even though they have been around for hundreds of years.
Last on my list, The Old Cat of Long Valley my person wrote this, in honor of me! She placed in a contest and everything with it. She was sick and I wouldn’t leave her side. I put my head next to hers and purred until she was better. She calls me her muse!