June 12, 1892 is the birthdate of Djuna Barnes, an American expatriate and writer. In her stories cats figure, as in this metaphor:
"So softly, little dusty footfalls, like a cat, a small, profound cat"
Barnes grew up in a Bohemian household and herself figured largely in the Bohemian Paris of the 20s and 30s. Her novel Nightwood is considered a cult classic, and T. S. Eliot wrote an introduction for it.
"So softly, little dusty footfalls, like a cat, a small, profound cat"
Barnes grew up in a Bohemian household and herself figured largely in the Bohemian Paris of the 20s and 30s. Her novel Nightwood is considered a cult classic, and T. S. Eliot wrote an introduction for it.
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