Snortle

[desperance]

Himself is sitting - no, posing - on a pile of my books: black cat, yellow wall, red & white books. It's all very beautiful. I would post a picture, but I'd have to fetch my camera first, and he'd just follow me downstairs and that would be that. To break a thing in seeking to make a record of it is an act of utter folly, so I'm just going to sit here and be in the moment and admire. Sigh.

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[matociquala.livejournal.com]

We cannot observe without altering, and you can never step in the same river twice.

This is doubly true of cats.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

The smart cat never even steps in the same river once. Wetness! Ewww! (Except for those weird white Turkish cats who go swimming in a lake somewhere, but they've got one green eye and one blue eye and so are doubly weird, which is not a Bowie reference not nohow not...)

The smart cat has now moved, to sit 'twixt keyboard and screen, in the place that has recently become his (by virtue of his occupying it). Sometimes he tries to hook the cursor out of the screen, sometimes he tries to steal my snacks; most times he just sits, and allows me to peer wildly around him. He's a tall cat. Sigh.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

We cannot observe without altering

...and of course it was because I was looking that he was posing. Cats are by their very nature quantum.

[martyn44.livejournal.com]

How many 'moments' are lost in our contemporary mania to fix an image so that it can be 'shared'?

You saw. You enjoyed. You described. We saw. We enjoyed.

The appropriate quote comes from Mr Punch.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

'Zackly. And thank you.