Dear, sad, Virginia Woolf was born on January 25, 1882. We find a cat in "A Room of One's Own." Here the author, mildly drunk, happily smoking, ensconced in a window seat, among friends, but not feeling the need to contribute conversation, remarks:
If,,, there had been an ashtray handy...if things had been a little different than they were, one would not have seen...a cat without a tail. The sight of that abrupt and truncated animal paddling softly across the quadrangle, changed, by some fluke of the subconscious intelligence, the emotional light for me....Certainly as I watched the Manx cat pause in the middle of the lawn, as if it too questioned the universe...something seemed different. But ,,what was different, I asked myself, listening to the talk.
If,,, there had been an ashtray handy...if things had been a little different than they were, one would not have seen...a cat without a tail. The sight of that abrupt and truncated animal paddling softly across the quadrangle, changed, by some fluke of the subconscious intelligence, the emotional light for me....Certainly as I watched the Manx cat pause in the middle of the lawn, as if it too questioned the universe...something seemed different. But ,,what was different, I asked myself, listening to the talk.
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