““Why do you tell me this?”
“Perhaps because I am a cat and it amuses me to be arbitrary and do you a good turn.””

—  Roger Zelazny, book A Night in the Lonesome October

October 2 (p. 9)
A Night in the Lonesome October (1993)

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