Re: How to care for cats — and how to kill them

[Charles Albert]

My favorite is the cat episode from Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn.

Members of the list have, in the past, joined me in encomiums for Tom
Sharpe.....on a stranger's recommendation I have been reading some Tom
Pratchett, in whom I find a sublime blend of Peake, Waugh and Sharpe.

Does anyone else on the list have any experience with him?

love,
cfa


On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>wrote:

> The New Yorker has always had a peculiar affinity with cats, perhaps
> because they have a lot in common — an elegance, an abhorrence of
> sentimentality and an innate sense of superiority. The Big New Yorker
> Book of Cats is full of cats and owners, each holding one another at
> arm’s length and peering through invisible lorgnettes.
>
> Pulitzer prizewinner Susan Sheehan writes about a tabby cat called
> Pynchon, owned by the proprietor of a Manhattan bookshop. Pynchon, who
> for unspecified reasons arrived in New York ‘with no front claws’, is
> fond of listening to classical music on the radio and regularly
> attends meetings of the James Joyce Society at the shop. However, he
> seems to have little in common with his namesake, being both unusually
> gregarious and enormously fat. Indeed at the annual cat show at
> Madison Square Garden, Pynchon was judged to be so overweight that he
> was in imminent danger of developing diabetes.
>
>
> http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/9092441/the-big-new-yorker-big-book-of-cats-foreword-by-anthony-lane/
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> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
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