Re: Spoken Cat (was Brithenig)

In a message dated 4/4/2000 7:32:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
scaves@FRONTIERNET.NET writes:

<<  But I don't think she's talking to the birds.  She's talking
 to herself, expressing her aggressive excitement: her lips curl back,
 and
 she bleats--her whiskers shimmering--the syllables of predation:

                 mye heh heh heh heh heh heh
                 mye heh heh heh heh heh heh
  >>
not to mention occasional anticipatory clacking of teeth.

Two amusing _koan_ from "Zen for Cats" by Henry Beard:

    If there were no inside, would you still want to go outside?

    Why does the vacuum cleaner fall silent when its tail comes out of the
wall?