A self-respecting cat may look at a king

NYC stone cat (left) and Baby Cakes "may look a bit serious from time to time."

"To support your elegant use of cat photos, I respectfully offer this one," writes reader Ted:

Here in NYC, the Library Lions wear top-hats -- keeping up sartorial standards, but the lions like this stone cat have a serious dark strand. My lovely wife calls the next statue the “Evil bunny” and hence the Evil Bunny Building. In part, during the depression some folks hired sculptors and did things extra-fancy -- maybe the tone is the sculptor’s perspective?

Still, with postmodernists about, a self-respecting cat may look a bit serious from time to time?

BTW -- did you get “Sisu” from Robert Heinlein’s Citizen of the Galaxy?

No, but do tell. While we did read Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land way back when -- upon the recommendation of a science-fiction afficionado of our acquaintance -- "sisu" for us is just a Finnish kind of thing.

Comments

[John Donigan]

Go read "Citizen of the Galaxy."
It's fun, and it scares me how much of it fits these days. A former slave becomes a crewmember of the trade (star) ship "Sisu" - for a while.