
“I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.”
Abishag would’ve been delighted at Poe’s comment.
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“If you want to write, keep cats.”
— Aldous Huxley (author, Brave New World)
Brings to mind that quote, attributed to Mae West, who recommended every girl keep a diary. “Keep a diary always, and then someday it’ll keep you.”
#Abishag
Annie: “Hi, Mama. Um- we’z jus wonrin’ how to write a book.”
Jamie: “I know you were born on the campus of a publishing company – whatever that is – but where do you get these ideas?”
Geronimo: “Her Bring Food” alla time talkin’ ’bout writin’ books. So we thought maybe we cud too.”
Annie: “We wants to be faymust. We think Her Bring Food help us.”
Her Bring Food: “That’s my cue to walk on. Are you kittens ready to get started on your ‘Kibble Kids Dishunary’?”
Annie: “Help us?”
Geronimo: “Wait, wait. I’ze hungree. An’ need a nap. Affer that, maybe ready to write.”
Her Bring Food: “You sound like a writer already, Geronimo.”
“Holding up my
purring cat to the moon
I sighed.”
– Jack Kerouac, American Haiku, 1959
O, to write like that.