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...story, like all children's tales, is elementary malignance v. unvanquishable virtue. A kindly old Parisienne intends to leave her francs to her cat and three kittens. Upon their demise, the fortune will fall to Edgar, the butler. Hmmmm, mulls the villain: a cat lives twelve years, felines have nine lives, twelve times nine is-"I'll be gone by then." Being a Disney Wrongo, instead of speeding up the process he merely abducts his rivals to a pastel pays, from which the troupe works its way back chez eux. En route, the plains and suburbs produce...
Other memories: my mother refusing to tell my father whom she would vote for in the next day's election (the walls had ears, we felt). The ugly neighborhood tomcat we privately nicknamed "Mayor Hague" because he bossed all the other cats-and my mother's horror when my four-year-old brother called the cat just that in the crowded butcher's store. Politics seems even to be mixed with my memories of St. Aloysius Church: the smell of dust and sin in the confessional, of candles and innocence at Sunday Mass. Did the knowledge that...
...store, Soulful Spider observed: "His eyes get big, and he gets to buying things like plum pants, shirts and socks. Oh yeah, they colorful, colorful, colorful, soulfully colorful; colors that would definitely make a rainbow look bad." About jewels worn at a party, another pimp rhapsodized: "There was one cat out of Miami, believe it or not had a diamond between his teeth, that's right. Had his ears pierced, had a diamond hanging out of his ear. Now that's what I call a lover of the stone or a connoisseur of nature, because diamonds...
Revelations. In a parental play school, there are no lectures. Instead, nine or ten couples normally spend two evenings a week in such activities as finger painting, clay modeling and playing cat's cradle. During a third evening session, with a trained leader to guide them, they talk about what they did, felt and observed during their play. The results often come as startling revelations to the participants...
...world's foundering in technology. Goldberg's contraptions used owls and trumpets to nominate people for political office, pistols and crows to feed an infant and rock its cradle. There was even a Hitler-kicking machine that gave the Führer his comeuppance via a cat, a mouse and a stripteaser. Goldberg constructed chains of causality that could be as illogical as life itself. A 1950 cartoon: "Truman (A) plays piano, knocking over bowl containing Amerasia secret papers (B)−fumes (C) overcome Republican Senator (D), who falls back, causing spoon (E) to toss surplus potato...