/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.15451449]

I love my cat. He always cheers me up when I feel down.

What famous authors really liked cats aswell? Do you like cats too frens?

[Anonymous No.15451459]

>>15451449
Melville, Herman. Love him. One would like to have filmed him at breakfast, feeding a sardine to his cat.

[Anonymous No.15451469]

>>15451449

Neil Gaiman probably likes cats. I don't really like cats, but I definitely like them more than /pol/ retards and other people who come to /lit/ to post their shit threads. Cats definitely are going to heaven while such people have their place reserved in hell, 100% legit.

[Anonymous No.15451475]

>>15451449
i like cats. i used to have a dog too but it died

[Anonymous No.15451476]

>>15451449
What was the name of Lovecrafts cat again?

[Anonymous No.15451479]

>>15451449
Baudelaire considered them as spiritually connected
Never had one myself though

[Anonymous No.15451482]

[Anonymous No.15451492]

>>15451476
Niggerman. He seems pretty cute from the photos.

I like cats but I have such ambivalent feelings about them. Outdoor cats murder and terrorize wildlife, causing local birds to go extinct. Indoor cats are kept in cages their whole lives.

[Anonymous No.15451504]

>>15451459
Oh I didn't know that. Do you think the love for his cat influenced his writing in any way?

>>15451469
I hope you will be in heaven fren.

>>15451475
I am sorry to hear fren. Losing a pet is heartbreaking. I hope you keep him in good memory. And I hope you are having a good day. Sorry in case my thread brought up sad feelings.

[Anonymous No.15451509]

>>15451479
Do you have a passage where he talks about cats fren?

>>15451482
Thanks for sharing fren. I always liked Borges.

[Anonymous No.15451523]

Emily Neville. It's Like This, Cat.

[Anonymous No.15451545]

>>15451509
Le Chat

Come, superb cat, to my amorous heart;
Hold back the talons of your paws,
Let me gaze into your beautiful eyes
Of metal and agate.

When my fingers leisurely caress you,
Your head and your elastic back,
And when my hand tingles with the pleasure
Of feeling your electric body,

In spirit I see my woman. Her gaze
Like your own, amiable beast,
Profound and cold, cuts and cleaves like a dart,

And, from her head down to her feet,
A subtle air, a dangerous perfume
Floats about her dusky body.

[Anonymous No.15451585]

>>15451492
My cats always bring in slow worms, it always upsets me. They don’t eat them, they just puncture their skin with their teeth so their organs start falling out and slowly die. I try to put them someplace hidden outside, in hopes that they can recover.

They pointless kill them, probably thinking they’re a toy. Just needless violence, no wonder lovecraft came up with that name...

[Anonymous No.15451587]

>>15451545
Thanks for sharing fren! Hope you have a sound night!

[Anonymous No.15451590]

I've had a cat come into my yard one day last winter and she's stayed around here ever since
she's super cuddly and is always following me around when I'm outside. I actually started going outside because of her
I made a house for her outside because she'd sleep by the door every night
she is gonna have kitties soon and I don't know what to do with them

[Anonymous No.15451604]

>>15451449
Joseph Brodsky, whose birthday was yesterday, loved cats..

[Anonymous No.15451605]

>>15451585
is that one of those fake snakes, the legless lizards

[Anonymous No.15451608]

>>15451587
anytime fren

[Anonymous No.15451616]

I miss my baby bros :(

My cat died almost two years ago, even now I still miss her. I’ve been volunteering at a shelter but I still can’t get one.

[Anonymous No.15451618]

>>15451504
it's okay she was a very old dog

[Anonymous No.15451619]

burroughs cared greatly for his cats

[Anonymous No.15451628]

"To Mr.s Reynold's Cat" by Keats

Cat! who hast passed thy grand climacteric,
How many mice and rats hast in thy days
Destroyed? How many tit-bits stolen? Gaze
With those bright languid segments green, and prick
Those velvet ears - but prithee do not stick
Thy latent talons in me, and up-raise
Thy gentle mew, and tell me all thy frays
Of fish and mice, and rats and tender chick.
Nay, look not down, nor lick thy dainty wrists -
For all thy wheezy asthma, and for all
Thy tail's tip is nicked off, and though the fists
Of many a maid have given thee many a maul,
Still is that fur as soft as when the lists
In youth thou enteredst on glass-bottled wall.

[Anonymous No.15451633]

>>15451449
Why was the last comfy cat thread deleted?

[Anonymous No.15451635]

"Poem" by William Carlos Williams


As the cat
climbed over
the top of

the jamcloset
first the right
forefoot

carefully
then the hind
stepped down

into the pit of
the empty
flowerpot

[Anonymous No.15451637]

>>15451605
Yeah, they’re lizards without legs. I don’t know enough about reptiles to say why that doesn’t make them a snake.

They’re the most common lizard in the UK I think, but they’re dying out, it’s illegal to intentionally kill them.

[Anonymous No.15451651]

>>15451633
either way I believe we can all agree that cats are the most /lit/ animal

>>15451545
ok thats kinda weird

[Anonymous No.15451652]

"Macavity: The Mystery Cat" by T.S. Eliot

Macavity’s a Mystery Cat: he’s called the Hidden Paw—
For he’s the master criminal who can defy the Law.
He’s the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad’s despair:
For when they reach the scene of crime—Macavity’s not there!

Macavity, Macavity, there’s no one like Macavity,
He’s broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.
His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare,
And when you reach the scene of crime—Macavity’s not there!
You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air—
But I tell you once and once again, Macavity’s not there!

Macavity’s a ginger cat, he’s very tall and thin;
You would know him if you saw him, for his eyes are sunken in.
His brow is deeply lined with thought, his head is highly domed;
His coat is dusty from neglect, his whiskers are uncombed.
He sways his head from side to side, with movements like a snake;
And when you think he’s half asleep, he’s always wide awake.

Macavity, Macavity, there’s no one like Macavity,
For he’s a fiend in feline shape, a monster of depravity.
You may meet him in a by-street, you may see him in the square—
But when a crime’s discovered, then Macavity’s not there!

He’s outwardly respectable. (They say he cheats at cards.)
And his footprints are not found in any file of Scotland Yard’s.
And when the larder’s looted, or the jewel-case is rifled,
Or when the milk is missing, or another Peke’s been stifled,
Or the greenhouse glass is broken, and the trellis past repair—
Ay, there’s the wonder of the thing! Macavity’s not there!

And when the Foreign Office find a Treaty’s gone astray,
Or the Admiralty lose some plans and drawings by the way,
There may be a scrap of paper in the hall or on the stair—
But it’s useless to investigate—Macavity’s not there!
And when the loss has been disclosed, the Secret Service say:
‘It must have been Macavity!’—but he’s a mile away.
You’ll be sure to find him resting, or a-licking of his thumbs;
Or engaged in doing complicated long division sums.

Macavity, Macavity, there’s no one like Macavity,
There never was a Cat of such deceitfulness and suavity.
He always has an alibi, and one or two to spare:
At whatever time the deed took place—MACAVITY WASN’T THERE!
And they say that all the Cats whose wicked deeds are widely known
(I might mention Mungojerrie, I might mention Griddlebone)
Are nothing more than agents for the Cat who all the time
Just controls their operations: the Napoleon of Crime!

[Anonymous No.15451665]

>>15451651
furry fuel

[Anonymous No.15451680]

>>15451585
On the good side it shows that the cats care about you and wants you to learn to hunt and eat properly

>>15451590
Have you put out posters? Maybe her family is looking for her. As for the kittens, either give them to a shelter, or put out announcements on the internet. Then spray the cat

[Anonymous No.15451687]

Celine

[Anonymous No.15451692]

This thread is revealing to me that western canon is full of furries and I don't know how to feel about it.

[Anonymous No.15451695]

Anyone got the poem written my that guy in the mental asylum?

[Anonymous No.15451706]

>>15451692
liking cats doesn't equal being a furry. The internet has corrupted you

[Anonymous No.15451712]

>>15451680
she's definitely a stray cat, there are many around here (rural area)
she was very little when she came around, probably abandoned by the stray mother which is not uncommon
I'll actually consider sterilizing her but it's probably too costly

[Anonymous No.15451729]

>>15451712
>I'll actually consider sterilizing her but it's probably too costly

Rather that than dealing with litters of kittens that you may not be able to find homes too. I had a neighbour who was unable to sell some kittens and he had to put them down, and it really crushed him.
Better to save up some money and save yourself the trauma

[Anonymous No.15451732]

>>15451706
I mean, obviously it doesn't, but poems akin to Baudelaire's Le Chat show a level of eroticism directed towars the image of the cat seems a tad... a tad furry.

Anyway, this is a comfy thread.

[Anonymous No.15451833]

>>15451665
nothing wrong with that

[Anonymous No.15452288]

Vilfredo Pareto! He used to write with a cat on each shoulder, or so I heard....

"Pareto retired to his villa at Celigny, where he lived a solitary existence except for his 18 Angora cats (the villa was named "Villa Angora") and his friend Jane Régis, a woman 30 years younger than he who had joined his household in 1901, when his wife left him. In 1907 he began writing his most famous and quite influential work, The Treatise on Sociology; he completed it in 1912 and published it in 1916. (The work was published in English translation as The Mind and Society in 1935 in a four-volume edition.)"