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The intertitles in our silent picture show
I am returned from Providence of much packing and reunited with my own cats whose warmth and weight and colony scent I have been missing, gracious hosts though Lydia and Selwyn were. I don't even want to think about the amount of work I will need to complete in the remaining days of this week, which is why I am going to bed. This message Autolycus-approved.
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Nine
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Autolycus is one of the most straightforward people I know!
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Nine
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Thank you.
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He just looks like that. He can destroy the catbox and look like an untroubled sphinx. He is very dear to me.
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Oh, yes. He has no use for modesty, false or otherwise.
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I know the name has bone fide Greek mythological roots, but to me it always conjures up Bruce Campbell's character in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys first and foremost. Which Autolycus did yours get his name from?
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His sister Hestia is the head of our household! But Autolycus is very firmly in charge of me.
Which Autolycus did yours get his name from?
Shakespeare's—the Mercury-littered snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. He has enormous eight-clawed paws and can and does use them to pick up things like feather toys and bottlecaps and plastic milk rings, which he then places nicely in his mouth and carries away to stash somewhere we never find conveniently. He can open doors and understands the theory, if thankfully not the practice, of getting the tops off seltzer bottles. Because of the polydactyly, my father nicknamed him the King of Greece, after the myth that the true heir of the Byzantines will have more than the usual number of fingers and toes; my mother called him the Prince of Cats. I have a famous ancestor Theobald. Autolycus' full name is Tybalt Autolycus Taaffe. His sister was named Hestia when they were still kittens living with their mother and their siblings because she was asleep so much of the time, curled up as if before a perpetual hearth; we forgot that the hearth needs wicked claws to defend it and she proved little but fierce indeed. Her full name is Hestia Hermia Linsky-Noyes. Her surname is after Esther Averill's Jenny Linsky, whom she strikingly resembles.
[edit] Your icon is excellent.
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(I don't have any more cat icons, I'm afraid! This owl will have to do.)
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I think so, too. But I am especially fond of ours. We got lucky.
I haven't come across the Jenny Linsky books before, though. I guess they don't have the same place in the British cultural consciousness as they do in the American.
They're very New York-based. I was delighted and surprised when the NYRB reprinted them because I had met almost no one outside my family who had read them growing up.
(I don't have any more cat icons, I'm afraid! This owl will have to do.)
It's a good owl! I just have the one cat icon myself and it doubles for queer and Jewish themes and general solidarity.
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And you know, that pose would be an awesome author photo.
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Thank you! See below.
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We think so!
And you know, that pose would be an awesome author photo.
Thank you! I am actually using the second picture
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He has always climbed onto my shoulder, ever since he was a tiny kitten. He is much too big to fit on my shoulder anymore, but he has not relinquished his claim to the territory, and I hope he never does.
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Thank you!
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He stood on the kitchen cart and stretched up his paws to be picked up and took possessive hold of my shoulder as soon as I did. He is a wonderful cat.
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Ninja stands on the floor and puts his paws on your knee; he then, if picked up, drapes himself over your neck whether he fits or not, purring thunderously in your ear and occasionally licking it. I think he's a smaller cat, but he has some similar habits.
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Oh, that's adorable.
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He does! He used to have a little kitten dish-face. It was a momentous day when he developed a snout.
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He is asleep on my lap as I type this reply!
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Mine won't sleep on my lap or tolerate being a shoulder cat, but she comes and curls up in the crook of my arm and purrs for a bit when I'm in bed, which is very nice. :3
Cats are best!
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Aww! That is a good way to go to sleep.
Cats are best!
Amen!
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Thank you! He does have a noble profile.
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Thank you!