“His day-dream was suddenly shattered into a thousand fragments like a lance against plate-armour. He saw the flash of a jewelled shoe-buckle as the toe of the royal shoe caught him in the ribs. He heard the royal voice raised in petulant indignation. He felt himself flying through the air and landing on the hard [Open This Episode]
The Paradise of Cats, written by Emile Zola, 1864
“Well! Amidst all these comforts, I had but one wish, but one dream, to slip out by the half-open window, and run away on to the tiles. Caresses appeared to me insipid, the softness of my bed disgusted me, I was so fat that I felt sick, and from morn till eve I experienced the [Open This Episode]
The Galloping Cat, a poem by the late Stevie Smith
“So I thought: What’s the good of galloping about doing good when angels stand in the path and do not do as they should.” The Galloping Cat from All the Poems by Stevie Smith That’s a quote from The Galloping Cat. A poem by the late British writer Stevie Smith. For this episode it’s taken [Open This Episode]