Both heartwarming and meditative, "The Cat Inside" explores not only the personal relationship between Burroughs and cats, but the deeper relationship of cats with mankind, which Burroughs traces back to the Egyptians. This book of moving and witty discourse is for both Burroughs' fans and cat lovers alike.
/May 4, 1985. I am packing for a short trip to New York to discuss the cat book with Brion. In the front room where the kittens are kept, Calico Jane is nursing one black kitten. I pick up my Tourister. It seems heavy. I look inside and there are her other four kittens.
"Take care of my babies. Take them with you wherever you go."/ (查看原文)
I am selecting cat food at the pet shop in Dillon's supermarket and I meet an old woman. Seems her cat won't eat any cat food with fish in it. Well, I tell her, mine are just the opposite. They /prefer/ the fishy foods like Salmon Dinner and Seafood Supper.
"Well," she says, "they certainly are company."
And what can she do for her company when there is no Dillon's and no pet shop? What can I do? I simply could not stand to see my little cats hungry. (查看原文)
Penguin Modern Classics(共491册)，
这套丛书还有
《Poetics of Relation》《Collected Poems》《Studies in Hysteria》《The Lottery and Other Stories》《A Handful of Dust》
等
。
0 有用 ichbinluz 2016-06-16 18:11:41
We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place.
0 有用 陆离 2013-08-13 18:47:48
"I think he's dead, Bill," James said. #The Tribble Inside# /Meeeeowww/. "Hello, Bill."
0 有用 Aries 2014-02-05 19:31:52
一个很喜欢猫的人 一个我很喜欢的人