Purr-Fect Crime

出版者:MJF Books

页数:0

出版时间:1997-7

价格:USD 6.98

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781567310849

We have long associated cats

with the supernatural, the myste-

rious, the unknown elements of

animal nature that may be

endowed with powers beyond

ours. Perhaps this is because cats

are so mysterious in their essen-

tially paradoxical nature: they

can see in darkness, they can

move silently, they are flexible

and acrobatic enough to seem

to defy the laws of physics, they

can fall from great heights with-

out injuring themselves, they

catch and kill for sport, they are

aloof and apparently self-suffi-

cient-yet, with all these abilities,

they live with us, under our very

noses. They seem strangers

among us. Unlike dogs, cats are

with us, but they are not of us.

The ancient Egyptians worshiped

the cat, probably for its mouse-

catching abilities,so important in a