Comments on: My cat Friday http://www.elifbatuman.net/2008/08/23/my-cat-friday/ "The trade of authorship is a violent and indestructible obsession." George Sand Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:37:31 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Elif http://www.elifbatuman.net/2008/08/23/my-cat-friday/comment-page-1/#comment-735 Elif Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:25:50 +0000 http://www.elifbatuman.net/2008/08/23/my-cat-friday/#comment-735 What wonderful news! I never knew this about Venus. Now I see that if you Google "Venus + purring" you get a <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/tennis/7470180.stm rel="nofollow">BBC play-by-play narration</a> of Venus Williams vs Naomi Cavaday at Wimbledon in June ("The players are warming up, leftie Cava bouncing around vigorously and <b>Venus purring</b> along on the opposite baseline"). It's actually some very snappy writing: <blockquote>Venus 0-1 Cavaday Hello - what's this? Has Cava been training a secret army of insects to aid her cause? Venus is cruising at 40-0 when a wasp lands on her ankle and appears to sting her. Four Venus errors later it's advantage Cava... Cavaday is blowing like Mount Etna but who cares? She's leading the champ on Centre Court. </blockquote> There is also an NYT book review about seductresses, titled <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE5D8173DF936A35751C1A9659C8B63" rel="nofollow">"Stop <b>Purring</b>, Ladies, and Pounce"</a>, which traces vampishness "back to Fanny the Dancing <b>Venus</b> of 31,000 B.C." On the other hand: of those humans I know who would potentially benefit from extra socialization, there is not one with whom I would volunteer to sit in a tiny bathroom for hours and hours, with or without a feather. What wonderful news! I never knew this about Venus. Now I see that if you Google “Venus + purring” you get a BBC play-by-play narration of Venus Williams vs Naomi Cavaday at Wimbledon in June (”The players are warming up, leftie Cava bouncing around vigorously and Venus purring along on the opposite baseline”). It’s actually some very snappy writing:

Venus 0-1 Cavaday
Hello – what’s this? Has Cava been training a secret army of insects to aid her cause? Venus is cruising at 40-0 when a wasp lands on her ankle and appears to sting her. Four Venus errors later it’s advantage Cava… Cavaday is blowing like Mount Etna but who cares? She’s leading the champ on Centre Court.

There is also an NYT book review about seductresses, titled “Stop Purring, Ladies, and Pounce”, which traces vampishness “back to Fanny the Dancing Venus of 31,000 B.C.”

On the other hand: of those humans I know who would potentially benefit from extra socialization, there is not one with whom I would volunteer to sit in a tiny bathroom for hours and hours, with or without a feather.

]]> By: LK http://www.elifbatuman.net/2008/08/23/my-cat-friday/comment-page-1/#comment-734 LK Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:51:08 +0000 http://www.elifbatuman.net/2008/08/23/my-cat-friday/#comment-734 Your cat Friday is aptly named. His appellation is entrusted to Venus. Venus is the goddess of present and future potential purr. And the feather, ah the feather — if only certain humans could be so readily "socialized." Your cat Friday is aptly named. His appellation is entrusted to Venus. Venus is the goddess of present and future potential purr. And the feather, ah the feather — if only certain humans could be so readily “socialized.”

]]> By: deniz http://www.elifbatuman.net/2008/08/23/my-cat-friday/comment-page-1/#comment-733 deniz Mon, 25 Aug 2008 03:10:02 +0000 http://www.elifbatuman.net/2008/08/23/my-cat-friday/#comment-733 You have a cat!!!!!!!!I miss you and love you.. You have a cat!!!!!!!!I miss you and love you..

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