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Posted by fayeroe on July 12, 2009, at 21:09:58
Two cats (Diamond Cut Diamond)
Two Cats
One up a tree
One under the tree
The cat up a tree is he
The cat under the tree is she
The tree is witch elm, just incidentally.
He takes no notice of she, she takes no notice of he.
He stares at the woolly clouds passing, she stares at the tree.
There's been a lot written about cats, by Old Possum, Yeats and Company
But not Alfred de Musset or Lord Tennyson or Poe or anybody
Wrote about one cat under, and one cat up, a tree.
God knows why this should be left for me
Except I like cats as cats be
Especially one cat up
And one cat under
A witch elm
Tree.Ewart Milne (1903-1987)
Posted by Sigismund on July 12, 2009, at 21:22:24
In reply to Of Cats, Dingos and Trees, posted by fayeroe on July 12, 2009, at 21:09:58
>'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'
>'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?' 'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to', said the Cat. 'I don't much care where', said Alice. 'Then it doesn't matter which way you go', said the Cat.
Lewis Carroll
Posted by Sigismund on July 12, 2009, at 21:23:52
In reply to Of Cats, Dingos and Trees, posted by fayeroe on July 12, 2009, at 21:09:58
>'But I dont want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
'Oh, you cant help that,' said the Cat. 'Were all mad here. Im mad. Youre mad.'
'How do you know Im mad?' said Alice.
'You must be, said the Cat. 'or you wouldnt have come here.'
Posted by fayeroe on July 12, 2009, at 21:27:19
In reply to Re: Of Cats, Dingos and Trees, posted by Sigismund on July 12, 2009, at 21:23:52
I am not speechless because in order to be speechless, I could not laugh so hard.
Posted by fayeroe on July 12, 2009, at 21:39:58
In reply to Re: Of Cats, Dingos and Trees..Almost speechless » Sigismund, posted by fayeroe on July 12, 2009, at 21:27:19
Most cats, with the exception of those in trees, do not celebrate their birthdays. Rather, they are extremely sentimental about Palm Sunday and Labor Day, at which times they survive solely on white lace and baloney sandwiches. Cats on the whole are reluctant to discuss God. Generally speaking, cats have no money, although some of them secretly collect rare and valuable coins. Sometimes they pick birds from trees before they are ripe...
Posted by Sigismund on July 13, 2009, at 14:27:03
In reply to Quite mad, quite mad., posted by fayeroe on July 12, 2009, at 21:39:58
Who says psychobabble is a waste of time? It has me reading "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" again in which, early on (p15), I found this....
>Down down down. There was nothing much else to do so Alice began talking again. 'Dinah will miss me very much tonight, I should think!' (Dinah was the cat.) 'I hope they will remember her saucer of milk at tea-time. Dinah my dear! I wish you were down here with me! There are no mice in the air, I'm afraid, but you might catch a bat, and that's very like a mouse you know. And here Alice began to get rather sleepy, and went on saying to herself, in a dreamy sort of way, 'Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats?' and sometimes 'Do bats eat cats?', for, you see, as she couldn't answer either question it didn't much matter which way she put it. She felt that she was dozing off, and had just begun to dream that she was walking hand in hand with Dinah, and was saying to her very earnestly, 'Now Dinah, tell me the truth: did you ever eat a bat?'
Posted by fayeroe on July 13, 2009, at 16:23:23
In reply to Quite mad, quite mad., posted by fayeroe on July 12, 2009, at 21:39:58
As long as there is a breath in this old body and I am here....Babble will be "the place to be"..Social, that is.
A poem by Thomas Rose, age 11...England
Bats have shiny leather wings
Bats do many clever things
Bats dose upside-down by day
Bats come out at night to playBats cavort in soaring cliques
sounding ultrasonic shrieks
Acrobatic in the sky
Bats catch every bug they spyThey may not eat cats....however, I don't know about cats eating bats. Perhaps my scholarly research (google) will turn something up.
Posted by Sigismund on July 14, 2009, at 15:38:27
In reply to Bats Eat Bugs » fayeroe, posted by fayeroe on July 13, 2009, at 16:23:23
See what you think of this....
She had quite forgotten the Duchess by this time, and was a little startled when she heard her voice close to her ear. `You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I can't tell you just now what the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in a bit.'
`Perhaps it hasn't one,' Alice ventured to remark.
`Tut, tut, child!' said the Duchess. `Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.' And she squeezed herself up closer to Alice's side as she spoke.
Alice did not much like keeping so close to her: first, because the Duchess was very ugly; and secondly, because she was exactly the right height to rest her chin upon Alice's shoulder, and it was an uncomfortably sharp chin. However, she did not like to be rude, so she bore it as well as she could.
`The game's going on rather better now,' she said, by way of keeping up the conversation a little.
`'Tis so,' said the Duchess: `and the moral of that is--"Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love, that makes the world go round!"'
`Somebody said,' Alice whispered, `that it's done by everybody minding their own business!'
`Ah, well! It means much the same thing,' said the Duchess, digging her sharp little chin into Alice's shoulder as she added, `and the moral of that is--"Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves."'
`How fond she is of finding morals in things!' Alice thought to herself.
`I dare say you're wondering why I don't put my arm round your waist,' the Duchess said after a pause: `the reason is, that I'm doubtful about the temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the experiment?'
`He might bite,' Alice cautiously replied, not feeling at all anxious to have the experiment tried.
`Very true,' said the Duchess: `flamingoes and mustard both bite. And the moral of that is--"Birds of a feather flock together."'
`Only mustard isn't a bird,' Alice remarked.
`Right, as usual,' said the Duchess: `what a clear way you have of putting things!'
`It's a mineral, I think,' said Alice.
`Of course it is,' said the Duchess, who seemed ready to agree to everything that Alice said; `there's a large mustard-mine near here. And the moral of that is--"The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours."'
`Oh, I know!' exclaimed Alice, who had not attended to this last remark, `it's a vegetable. It doesn't look like one, but it is.'
`I quite agree with you,' said the Duchess; `and the moral of that is--"Be what you would seem to be"--or if you'd like it put more simply--"Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise."'
`I think I should understand that better,' Alice said very politely, `if I had it written down: but I can't quite follow it as you say it.'
`That's nothing to what I could say if I chose,' the Duchess replied, in a pleased tone.
`Pray don't trouble yourself to say it any longer than that,' said Alice.
Posted by TexasChic on July 14, 2009, at 20:20:19
In reply to Re: Bats Eat Bugs, posted by Sigismund on July 14, 2009, at 15:38:27
Its is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that, whatever you say to them, they always purr. "If they would only purr for 'yes' and mew for 'no,' or any rule of that sort," she had said, "so that one could keep up a conversation! But how can you talk with a person if they always say the same thing?"
On this occasion the kitten only purred: and it was impossible to guess whether it meant "yes" or "no".
-T
Posted by TexasChic on July 14, 2009, at 20:27:03
In reply to Alice and Kitty, posted by TexasChic on July 14, 2009, at 20:20:19
Still she haunts me, phantomwise,
Alice moving under skies
Never seen by waking eyes,Children yet, the tale to hear,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Lovingly shall nestle near.In a Wonderland they lie,
Dreaming as the days go by,
Dreaming as the summers die:Ever drifting down the stream
Lingering in the golden glean
Life, what is it but a dream?-T
Posted by gobbledygook on July 15, 2009, at 16:00:19
In reply to Re: Of Cats, Dingos and Trees..Almost speechless » Sigismund, posted by fayeroe on July 12, 2009, at 21:27:19
> I am not speechless because in order to be speechless, I could not laugh so hard.
>
And speaking of bats, cats, and Lance Armstrong -Here's Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, one of my favorite artists of all time.
Here's wishing you a wonderful world, (Pat).
Hope all is well with you.
Ava
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQk2LtK680w
Posted by Sigismund on July 15, 2009, at 20:14:52
In reply to Re: Alice and Kitty, posted by TexasChic on July 14, 2009, at 20:27:03
The author's father, also Charles Dodgson, wrote this letter to his 8yo son. The younger Charles had asked his father to bring him back a file, a screwdriver and a ring. This is from the letter....
As soon as I get to Leeds I shall scream out in the middle of the street, IRONMONGERS, IRON-mongers....I WILL have a file & a screwdriver & a ring, & if they are not brought directly, in forty seconds I will leave nothing but one small cat alive in the whole of Leeds, & I shall only leave that, because I am afraid I shall not have time to kill it.
Then what a bawling and tearing of hair there will be! Pigs & babies, camels & butterflies, rolling in the gutter together - old women rushing up the chimneys & cows after them - ducks hiding themselves in coffee-cups, & fat geese trying to squeeze themselves into pencil cases.
Interesting how this kind of imagination gets handed down.
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