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| This is Lickety. (Some of you have met her before.) Lickety is a most precocious cat. But does she really read Herodotus, who wrote about the Greco-Persian wars? Lickety, can you tell us who won? |
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| Does she really read David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas (upside-down, no less)? Lickety, what's a genre? |
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| I would say that Lickety loves her people, her people love books, and therefore, she snuggles up to her people, then wakes, innocent and ignorant, to the books they've left behind... |
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| except that those are the eyes of a cat who has learned compassion. Lickety, what's life like in a Siberian prison camp? |
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| (Sunny, on the other hand, makes no pretense of being an intellectual.) |