The Philosopher's Cat

...you are perfection,  ....including the ability to hide in plain sight.

 Words in my head on morning wake up== 'So Polonius might have sat Had Polonius been a cat."6 It seems like there should be a point, message, or connotative something here. But after a few days I have decided, there is not.

  Kathleen Pennell's Posts  ·  Following Posted by  Jo Mburu   8mo A poignant story. 😢 When Titius Sabinus, a friend of Germanicus, was condemned to death by Tiberius in 28 AD, his dog could not be driven away from the prison door - but stayed outside waiting for its master. After Sabinus was executed and his body was thrown down the Gemonian stairs. His dog stayed by his master's body, howling mournfully. A crowd soon gathered and when one of them threw a piece of bread to the dog, the animal carried it instead to the mouth of its master. Eventually, the body of Sabinus was thrown in the River Tiber, but his faithful dog.. jumped into the river after him, swimming at the body's side and trying to keep it from sinking. A throng of people gathered at the river's edge to witness the pitiful scene, moved by the animal's fidelity.😢 Source—( Pliny, Natural History, 8.61, A Dog's Loyalty to its Master) 57.9K views

  Oliver Sacks was born on July 9, 1933. This famous neurologist has gained an audience far beyond the medical community through his brave and creative approach to research. He wrote Awakenings which was made into a movie with Robin Williams, and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and lots of others. He edited the 2003 edition of The Best American Science Writing also. In one article he selected we learn that researchers cottoned to coyote predation on urban pets by wondering why so many cat flea collars were turning up in the scat they studied.

 quoting wikipedia Jump to navigation Jump to search "Barbara Mary Crampton Pym FRSL  (2 June 1913 – 11 January 1980) was an English novelist. In the 1950s she published a series of social comedies, of which the best known are  Excellent Women  (1952) and  A Glass of Blessings  (1958). In 1977 her career was revived when the critic  Lord David Cecil  and the poet  Philip Larkin  both nominated her as the most under-rated writer of the century. Her novel  Quartet in Autumn  (1977) was nominated for the  Booker Prize  that year, and she was elected as a Fellow of the  Royal Society of Literature ."     Actually, I don't recall she was a great cat lover, and  I strongly suspect that picture below is publicized for zeitgeist reasons.

 

Since British royalty (except for Lady Colin Campbell) seem singularly free of  feline influence, I thought it noteworthy that there may be a cat statue on desk on the desk in this picture.  This photo dated around March 2022

His Who's Who actually is quoted below: Fülop-Miller, René https://doi.org/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U49524 Published online:  01 December 2007 Born  Caransebes, Transylvania,  17 March 1891 ; father of German Protestant ancestry, by profession chemist, mother a descendant from the famous Macedonian family of Brancovitch;  m   1916 , the Hungarian soprano Heddy Bendiner of the Budapest Opera; no  c ;  died   7 May 1963 author Education High Schools of Vienna; Lausanne; Paris studied pharmaceutical chemistry, anatomy, psychiatry Career After educn took up journalism; after the war, several journeys to Soviet Russia which led to the publication of Dostoievski’s and Tolstoi’s posthumous works as well as to Mind and Face of Bolshevism; subsequently successful literary career Member Authors’ Society Publications Mind and Face of Bolshevism (Engl. trans.  1927 ); Lenin and Gandhi (Engl. trans.  1928 ); The Russian Theatre (Engl. trans.  1930 ); Power and Secret of the Jesuits (Engl. t

A statue of a dog found in a Roman tomb--- pictures in article so you  may (OR NOT) agree on who it resembles http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/63056