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Queen and Cat and Emperor
Cleopatra: … 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 Comments
1. Modulator&hellip replies at 18th February 2006, 1:39 pm :
Friday Ark #74
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2. Terry replies at 18th February 2006, 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 replies at 18th February 2006, 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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