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of historical trivia regarding books, cats, and other animals. Actually this blog has evolved so that it is described better as a blog about cats in history and culture. And we take as a theme the advice of Aldous Huxley: If you want to be a writer, get some cats. Don't forget to see the archived articles linked at the bottom of the page.

December 28, 2012

Dec. 28, 1933

Charles Portis (December 28, 1933) is not dead. The money he made from True Grit, (1968 )  may have run out, but that was not his only book made into a move.He can afford to write what he wants to. Portis's talent is for describing how people do NOT relate, not how they do. Some critics have called this comedy. It is more than that. Our excerpt is from The Dog of the South, (1979) about a man following his wife, and her former husband, by tracking the credit card transactions.

A hotel cat, a white one, followed me up the stairs to my room and I gave him one of the hotdogs. I didn't let him in the room. That would be a misplaced kindness. He would take up with me and then I would have to leave.

Nothing Portis writes is misplaced.
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