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>>13329174
Cordwainer Smith, "The Game of Rat and Dragon":

“I’m all right,” he said. “Just let me know when I can go see my partner.”

A new thought struck him. He looked wildly at the doctor. “They didn’t send her off with the ship, did they?”

“I’ll find out right away,” said the doctor. He gave Underbill a reassuring squeeze of the shoulder and left the room.

The nurse took a napkin off a goblet of chilled fruit juice.

Underbill tried to smile at her. There seemed to be something wrong with the girl. He wished she would go away. First she had started to be friendly and now she was distant again. It’s a nuisance being telepathic, he thought. You keep trying to reach even when you are not making contact.

Suddenly she swung around on him.

“You pinlighters! You and your damn cats!”

Just as she stamped out, he burst into her mind. He saw himself a radiant hero, clad in his smooth suede uniform, the pin-set crown shining like ancient royal jewels around his head. He saw his own face, handsome and masculine, shining out of her mind. He saw himself very far away and he saw himself as she hated him.

She hated him in the secrecy of her own mind. She hated him because he was—she thought—proud and strange and rich, better and more beautiful than people like her.

He cut off the sight of her mind and, as he buried his face in the pillow, he caught an image of the Lady May.

“She is a cat,” he thought. “That’s all she is—a cat!”

But that was not how his mind saw her—quick beyond all dreams of speed, sharp, clever, unbelievably graceful, beautiful, wordless and undemanding.

Where would he ever find a woman who could compare with her?

>>13329556
Cordwainer Smith also contributed a great deal to the furries, with the underpeople - human/animal hybrids - and the cat-girl hostess in "The Ballad of Lost C'Mell".

>>13329174
all of them

>>13330123
muh six toes cats

>>13330127
camus' cat was called etranger

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>>13330138
combo breaker

>>13329174
almost all of them

>>13329188
He said nigger so funee xD

>>13330141
yung faulkner and his cat

>>13330400
image search suggests otherwise