Word: catnip
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...instance. The cat followed one of my roommates home one night when he was with a girl named Lucy, and so the cat was named Lucy even thought it was a male cat. The cat lived on Pizza crusts, my roommate's marijuana plant. which he mistook for catnip, catfood, and silverfish, which are little bugs that come out of the radiator in the bathroom. The cat would have been indispensable as a silverfish-catcher if we had wanted the silverfish caught. He would sit patiently beside the radiator like a panther in the jungle, waiting for a silverfish...
...particularly, shifty Israelis. His photoelectric brain registers all details equally quickly. His life consists of "violent periods interspersed with short pauses spent in simple pleasures," but those pleasures include neither smoking nor drinking. Women? With his athlete's body and his eagle's profile, he is catnip to the ladies, but he spurns them -particularly those with wanton Western ways. He is a gentle man, except when provoked. "There is a time for diplomacy and there is a time for fighting," he says. "The time for diplomacy is long past. Violence must be answered with violence...
Spaced Out: usually meaning high on pot, LSD or catnip...