Death Cat
Found via another blog, I think Maverick Philosopher, Oscar--the Cat who Predicts Death
Reprint Time--Helena
A comment from the blogkeeper at Underbelly (thank you Buce) inspired me to look this up. I was fairly certain that I had reviewed the book in the recent past, and so I discovered this. a good book is worth appreciation--over and over and over again. Also, while you are appreciating, you might want to take in Underbelly's look at Helena as well. La Belle Hélène on March 18, 2005 8:11 AM In reading Helena last night I stumbled across a large number of passages I would like to share. But I thought the more important thing to share was an observation. Evelyn Waugh liked this best among his books. There are a good many reasons why this might be so: it is splendidly written--both the prose and the coherence are several notches above some of his earlier, more frenetic work. It is tightly done, with just the right strokes and exactly the right selection of detail. But I suspect the reason Waugh prized this above all the other works is that in t...
Did no one watch House earlier this season? Or maybe it was toward the end of last season. I guess they had read the article also. Although House showed that the cat was attracted to people who had higher temperatures than others since cats love to stay warm. Perhaps that isn't Oscar's rationale although I suspect the writers had heard of this story when they wrote it into the script. It made sense to me though ... :-)
ReplyDeleteHi Julie,
ReplyDeleteI don't watch House so this came as welcome information to me and perhaps to many readers. Thank you!
Steven