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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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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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