The Philosopher's Cat

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  can only write, watch telly, check the sky

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...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....

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

Edith Pargeter (September 28, 1913 to October 14, 1995) is the real name behind the mystery writer Ellis Peters, whose 12th century detective stories are widely popular. For instance the BBC adapted her Brother Cadfael mysteries for a television series starring Derek Jacobi.  Some of her stories feature cats.  The Trinity Cat  (2006, may be a reprint date) is the leading story in a collection of that name, and her cat stories appear in other collections also:  More Mystery Cats  (1993) edited by Lilian Jackson Braun is just one example. Pargeter also won a reputation and awards for her work translating Czechoslovakian literature.  The Terezín Requiem  (1963), was a Joseph Bor story of a Verdi concert at Auschwitz.. In 1949,  The Coast of Bohemia , her account of her travels there, had appeared. 

Contemporary poet and critic Heather McHugh was nominated for a National Book Award for her 1994 volume "Hinge and Sign." Her work strives after the living flux behind words. Here is an excerpt about the difficulty of getting around the static of words: The cat is killed By the passionate petter The poem by clappers Who mob its best laid calms ... On September 22, 2009, she was awarded a MacArthur genius grant.

Heinrich Hoffmann (June 13, 1809 to September 20, 1894) was a German physician, a witty and learned man, who took the post of director of the lunatic asylum in Frankfurt, in 1851. Here he seems to have had an extraordinary rate of success though he refused to attribute his success to any ideological perspectives. The poem below was one of a series he wrote, meant to entertain as well as educate children. The things that strike us as grotesque were not seen as such by their original audience. THE DREADFUL STORY OF PAULINE AND THE MATCHES Mamma and Nurse went out one day, And left Pauline alone at play; Around the room she gayly sprung, Clapp'd her hands, and danced, and sung., Now, on the table close at hand, A box of matches chanced to stand, And kind Mamma and Nurse had told her, That if she touched them they would scold her; But Pauline said, "Oh, what a pity! For, when they burn, it is so pretty; They crackle so, and spit, and flame; And Mamma often burns the same. I'l...

Étienne Gilson (June 13, 1884 to September 19, 1978) was a French philosopher. He presented the history of philosophy as a means of considering basic  questions of reality in an era when many with the title of philosopher are not even able to formulate authentic perspectives. One of his biographers  stated  the significance of Gilson this way: "While he was generally recognized to be one of the greatest historians of medieval philosophy of his time, Mortimer J. Adler considered him to be one of the few great philosophers of the age."  Below is from an article based on this book (Shook's  Étienne Gilson,  1984) ..... In 1895, Gilson ... [started]  seven years of education at the Catholic secondary school, Petit Séminaire de Notre-Dame-des-Champs. There he underwent rigorous training in classical (“humanistic”) studies that included ancient Greek, Latin, Roman and French history, mathematics, physical science, liturgy, and music. Gilson left Notre-D...

William March (September 18, 1893 to May 15, 1954), was an American writer. He is obscure today, and he was in the 1930s, when he started writing. Some of his novels are,  The Tallons , (1936) and  October Island  (1952). His prose was excellent, as we can observe in this excerpt from  The Tallons : She lifted the overfed kitchen cat, curled him into her lap, and thought of her uncles and the complexity of their relationship. She had not known what the quarrel was about, but she had speculated over it a good deal.  According to the Encyclopedia of Alabama : The Looking-Glass  is generally considered to be March's best Alabama-based work and, indeed, his best novel. His biographer, Roy S. Simmonds, called the novel March's "most accomplished full-length work." His life is interesting and I suggest reading the article at the link already cited. There I learned that, after he  had a novel published in April, March was found dead of a heart attack in his b...