I came down and discovered some of my ever-precarious piles of books had fallen.
Had I let the piles grow too large? Had one of the many books I'm in the midst of reading been placed unartfully on the pile? Had a small earthquake rustled the house? Had gravity changed?
No, none of those were the reasons that multiple piles fell at once.
The culprit returned to survey his work...
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| The Cat Who Walked Through Books |
I, too, had "cats who walked through books"! Purr-haps the one he wanted to read was on the bottom. Having no opposable thumbs presents challenges to even the most erudite kitty!!
ReplyDelete- Nancy Gazo
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In my early twenties I had a cat who took to peeing on my shelved books - perhaps a comment on the nature of my taste.
ReplyDeleteContested Will was quite a book, I thought. Maybe now that it's taken a tumble it will move to the top of your to-be-blogged-about pile.
ReplyDeleteHe probably thinks that destroyed books mean more attention for himself.
ReplyDeletePerhaps Alex should be renamed Eclipse, since his shadow lies across both Eclipse 2 and Eclipse 3.
ReplyDelete-Eric S