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The Cat Inside

By William Burroughs

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| Hardcover | 9780670844654

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Best known for the wild, phantasmagoric satire of works like Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs reveals another, gentler side in The Cat Inside. Originally published as a limited-edition volume, this moving and witty discourse on cats combines deadpan routines and dream passages with a Continue

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I once owned the Italian edition of this book, then gave it as a present to a friend of mine. Borrowed this copy from the department of anglo-american studies.
Burroughs was a lifelong lover of cats, and I guess it was only natural that this fact should produce one such output.
The book is a colle ... (continue)

I once owned the Italian edition of this book, then gave it as a present to a friend of mine. Borrowed this copy from the department of anglo-american studies.
Burroughs was a lifelong lover of cats, and I guess it was only natural that this fact should produce one such output.
The book is a collection (collation, I would say) of short pieces, although at times the events go on from page to page like singled paragraphs of a longer narrative. Some of the pieces have a date & seem to have been written day-to-day, like a diary: "May 8, 1982. Today the female cat..." Burroughs probably was keeping a diary, or maybe notebooks, henryjameslike. The fact that some of it was written just after my birth gives it a quirk feeling. This is what Burroughs was doing while I was born.
B. has the classic pathological concern of the chronical pet lover, who worries about his animals as if they were babies, unable to speak and to take care of themselves.
The design is quite beatiful; the backcover photo is, in B.'s words, "touching". The pages are roughly cut at the edges, but being a very short book with hardcover this doesn't seem to matter.
See also marginal notes for a few quotes.

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