Word: cat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SATURDAY: Black Friday (1940) and The Clack Cat. (1941) Classic Horror's two features explore brain transplants with Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi and comic mayhem with Basil Rathbone and Broderick Crawford. CH.5...
Muriel Spark has posed in a fetching peignoir with a sinister black cat draped over her shoulder. In her prose, too, she has mostly worn her rue with a deference to the reader's need to take his shots of cold mortality with a little sweet vermouth. Lately, however, the author has grown more flatly somber, shorter on style, wit and patience, like a lonely spinster who has become too preoccupied, too saddened by the world to go through the reassuring motions of genial small talk...
Gill seems to have a special vendetta against the CIA and its Cambridge chief, Herman A. Mountain, whom she claimed she knows. When informed that Mountain had refused comment on the case, she responded, "Herman's scared. He's nothing but a pussy-cat...
Long, stealing cat shadows follow her down the city blocks. A corner. This is where that music, that noise, jangling polyrhythms had first assaulted and enveloped her. She is destroyed inside the memory, and chokes; quickly, a moment of pain in memoriam. Then she walks...
...like a cat at the window...