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  • Queen and Cat and Emperor

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    Posted on February 17th, 2006sherryCatblogging

    Prince Albert aka BertieCleopatra: … Do you think that the black cat can have been my great-great-great grandmother?
    Caesar: (staring at her) Your great-great-great grandmother! Well, why not? Nothing would surprise me on this night of nights.
    Cleopatra: I think it must have been. My great-grandmother’s great-grandmother was a black kitten of the sacred white cat; and the river Nile made her his seventh wife. That is why my hair is so wavy.

    — from George Bernard Shaw, Anthony and Cleopatra

    Which may be where Mehitabel the Cat got her claim:

    mehitabel the cat claims that
    she has a human soul
    also and has transmigrated
    from body to body and it
    may be so boss you
    remember i told you she accused
    herself of being cleopatra once …

    — Don Marquis, from archy and mehitabel

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3 Responses to “Queen and Cat and Emperor”

  1. Modulator February 18th, 2006 at 1:39 pm

    Friday Ark #74

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  2. Terry February 18th, 2006 at 5:46 pm

    The poem reminds me of one of my favorite horror movies, Fallen with Denzel Washington …. if you haven’t seen it, it’s well worth the rental fee.

  3. sherry February 18th, 2006 at 10:30 pm

    Hey Terry –

    I think I remember when that movie came out but I haven’t seen it. I don’t watch horror movies as much as once I did. Adrenaline rushes take more out of you when you get older, I guess.

    But we just watched a comedy called Sordid Lives that I highly recommend.

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