LETTER 2 FROM A GRUMPY CAT

 





4 a.m CAT time (Central Africa Time)


My mieuw/view on certain aspects that don’t concern me… 

The morning light softly touches my lovely fur. Eyes are mesmerized, with remnants of images from the Frankenstein play where we see the birth of an organic/mechanical being.

In the 21st century, humans become robots and robots are humanised. The abandoned creature asks for its rights. Who exists and who exits? 

I talk about humans with such nonchalance - a buoyant indifference like the old creepy French eighteenth-century intelligentsia crafting the French language - deciding if the 'e' should be added to mark the feminine. The masculine doesn't need an 'e’ - so natural. Let's be clear: 'e' is the lipstick, the flavor, the additional letter that differentiates the anatomy of our bodies. In English, an 'it' and ‘(s)he’ can make a difference between what is fully shaped and what is unborn, what is human and what is a cat. What stays anonymous and what is named? 


The moss on our words. The sluggish answer - a sentence that can be both punishment and grammatical structure - both subject and verb - coming out of our mouths. Dry but permeable. Languidly till it becomes unreal like air. Float and vanish. Float and vanish. The playlist of your thoughts in my mind. I want them all, with all their soft or abrasive irregularities. Enclosed or synaptic. you ar' my ar't. 


At 87, Doris Lessing couldn't care less about the Nobel Prize. She was doing her shopping at the grocer’s when she received the news. The jarring contrast between her reaction, the setting, and the grandeur of the Nobel Prize produces a hilarious impression. While the interviewer explains to her, didactically, the importance of this prize, a nonchalant artichoke keeps floating in the background. Lessing seems more interested in the artichoke than in the Nobel Prize and she asks 'what do you think I should say'. Contrary to the artichoke, words can be replaced with anything and said by anybody: it couldn't mean less. The ARTichoke wins.


Best wishes,  

The grumpy Cat 


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