Monday, December 20, 2010

The girl and the Cat | 60's


Photographer unknown


The Cat and the Canary (1927) Pt 1/6.

Jean Cocteau

“I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.”

Vintage Ad | Snowy

At school

Yoga Cat & Jane Fonda

Jane Fonda yoga exercising with her cats

William S. Burroughs

"A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering." 

Cat & Bird | Paul Klee

The Cat that walked by Himself | Rudyard Kipling

EAR and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was, O my Best Beloved, when the Tame animals were wild. The Dog was wild, and the Horse was wild, and the Cow was wild, and the Sheep was wild, and the Pig was wild--as wild as wild could be--and they walked in the Wet Wild Woods by their wild lones. But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him.



He is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him. Then he goes out to the Wet Wild Woods or up the Wet Wild Trees or on the Wet Wild Roofs, waving his wild tail and walking by his wild lone.

PUSSY can sit by the fire and sing,

    Pussy can climb a tree,
Or play with a silly old cork and string
    To'muse herself, not me.
But I like Binkie my dog, because
    He knows how to behave;
So, Binkie's the same as the First Friend was,
    And I am the Man in the Cave.

Pussy will play man-Friday till
    It's time to wet her paw
And make her walk on the window-sill
    (For the footprint Crusoe saw);
Then she fluffles her tail and mews,
    And scratches and won't attend.
But Binkie will play whatever I choose,
    And he is my true First Friend.

Pussy will rub my knees with her head
    Pretending she loves me hard;
But the very minute I go to my bed
    Pussy runs out in the yard,
And there she stays till the morning-light;
    So I know it is only pretend;
But Binkie, he snores at my feet all night,
    And he is my Firstest Friend!

The Little Cat | Joan Miro 1951

The Cat's Dream | Pablo Neruda

How neatly a cat sleeps,
sleeps with its paws and its posture,
sleeps with its wicked claws,
and with its unfeeling blood,                     


sleeps with all the rings--
a series of burnt circles--
which have formed the odd geology
of its sand-colored tail.


I should like to sleep like a cat,
with all the fur of time,
with a tongue rough as flint,
with the dry sex of fire;
and after speaking to no one,
stretch myself over the world,
over roofs and landscapes,
with a passionate desire
to hunt the rats in my dreams.


I have seen how the cat asleep
would undulate, how the night
flowed through it like dark water;
and at times, it was going to fall
or possibly plunge into
the bare deserted snowdrifts.
Sometimes it grew so much in sleep
like a tiger's great-grandfather,
and would leap in the darkness over
rooftops, clouds and volcanoes.


Sleep, sleep cat of the night,
with episcopal ceremony
and your stone-carved moustache.
Take care of all our dreams;
control the obscurity
of our slumbering prowess
with your relentless heart
and the great ruff of your tail.

............................................

Translated by Alastair Reid

Burroughs with his cats

Photographer unknown

William S. Burroughs | The Cat Inside

Book cover

William S. Burroughs | The Cat Inside

"My relationships with my cats, has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance..."

© Nicole Page-Smith

http://everythinggoesinacircle.blogspot.com/

© Nicole Page-Smith

http://everythinggoesinacircle.blogspot.com/

Balthus with Rossinière, 1999

© Martine Franck

Cat with Mirror III (detail)

Balthus

Cat with Mirror III

Balthus

Siamese Cat with Frank Zappa

Photographer unknown