Sherry Chandler » 2007 » November » 09
For a few weeks [the cat] had luck, and was was welcome in the pub. This was because Lucy, the prostitute who lived in the ground-floor flat of our building, used that pub in the evenings. She took him in with her, and sat on a high stool in a corner by the bar, with the cat on a stool beside her. She was an amiable lady, much liked in the pub, and anybody she chose to take in with her was welcome too. When I went in to buy cigarettes or a bottle, there sat Lucy and the cat. Her admirers, many and from all parts of the world, old customers and new, and of all ages, were buying her drinks and coaxing the barman and his wife to give the cat milk and potato crisps. But the novelty of a cat in a bar must have worn off, because soon Lucy was working the bar without the cat.
— Doris Lessing, from Particularly Cats (Knopf, 1991)
BTW, apparently Paul Krugman’s cat is named Doris Lessing.
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