The Cat
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War and Peace the other day. Admitting this is paramount to a confession that I’ve given up trying to write a novel in one month. I am NOT giving up on the novel, I’m just extending the time frame, indefinitely.
Something interesting happened yesterday, I think. The problem is that I don’t actually remember exactly what it was. I’ve been wrinkling my forehead in an effort to recall the elusive moments, hoping that something good would be remembered so I could blog about it. I’m stuck.
I’ve seen a wild cat downtown several times in the last two weeks. It doesn’t look like one of those wiry alley cats one occasionally spots in the city. It is white with large grey patches, and by all appearances manages to eat semi-regularly. Its survival seems against all odds, the weather is cold and the city is harsh, and last Friday four security agents with a brown cardboard box tried to capture it. Their heads were stuck in the bushes and their backsides were hanging in the air, yet it was all to no avail. The cat escaped. I saw him strutting arrogantly across the plaza yesterday in obvious defiance, flaunting his presence at the incompetent security guards. I must say, the cat has my admiration.
Something interesting happened yesterday, I think.
That’s a feeling I can definitely relate to. Unpackaging life’s definitive and interesting happenings is one of the ever-present challenges of blogging. That feeling of “something interesting” having transpired can really haunt you.
At any rate, Bravo for the cat.
I noticed you’re reading The Picture of Dorian Gray – simultaneously with War and Peace? If so, you’ve earned my admiration! I enjoyed Wilde’s masterpiece a lot.
Holy shit! You are cute!
…uh…and your blog is pretty cool too. Yeah.
Thank you Ariel: life’s biggest events can take on the grey of subtle ambiguety. And, so far I haev mixed feelings about The Picture of Dorian Gray, though I am curious enough to finish it.
As for Tolstoy’s tome, it fills me with delight and awe.
trish: perhaps after more reading the pendulum will swing the other way and binaries will be reversed?