“All cat stories start with this statement: "My mother, who was the first cat, told me this…”
Source: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, pp. 108-109
“All cat stories start with this statement: "My mother, who was the first cat, told me this…”
Source: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
“ Ben Kenney—Exclusive Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRVPQc6UmdI,” ad for PETA (10 July 2008).
“Why are you trying to shoot that cat?”
”Because—” I squeeze off another shot “—it’s possessed!”...
Mo turns and looks at me harshly. “That looked just like a perfectly ordinary cat to me. If you’ve—”
“It was possessed by the animation nexus behind JENNIFER MORGUE Two!” I gabble. “The clue—he saw a laser dot and dodged—”
Source: The Laundry Files, The Jennifer Morgue (2006), Chapter 16, “Reflex Decision” (p. 329; ellipsis represents a half-page elision)
“Now I have a cat. Well, that's not quite accurate. A cat and I have each other.”
“Cats and monkeys — monkeys and cats — all human life is there!”
The Madonna of the Future http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2460/2460-h/2460-h.htm (1879)
The Atlantic Monthly, March 1873 http://books.google.com/books?id=T4cGAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Cats+and+monkeys+monkeys+and+cats+all+human+life+is+there%22&pg=PA293#v=onepage
“I can call nothing by name if that is not his name. I call a cat a cat, and Rollet a rogue.”
Je ne puis rien nommer si ce n'est par son nom ;
J'appelle un chat un chat, et Rollet un fripon.
Satire I, l. 51
Satires (1716)