Contents

– Introduction –

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– TOVE JANSSON – from The Summer Book

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– HILAIRE BELLOC – from A Conversation with a Cat, and Others

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– ANONYMOUS – Pangur Bán (The Monk and his Cat)

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– LOU ANDREAS-SALOMÉ – from The Freud Journal of Lou Andreas-Salomé

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– ERNEST HEMINGWAY – Letter to Hadley Mowrer, 25 November 1943

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– LYNNE TRUSS – from Making the Cat Laugh: One Woman’s

Journal of Single Life on the Margins

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