Free range kitten

Up until now we've been putting the kittens in the kitten condo at night. With the tabbies having GI problems it just made sense to make sure that when they were unsupervised they were close to a litter box. Last night though, with just the black and white here at present we gave her the run of the apartment. Normally this results in much kitten mayhem as the kitten discovers how much fun can be had with sleeping monkeys. Last night it didn't happen and I don't recall being disturbed by the kitten at any point. I don't know whether things are different now that that LJG has taken on the permanent role of bed-guard cat (she always sleeps at my feet, behind my knees or on my legs).

In other news, I cleaned all four litter boxes this morning and that will likely be the highlight of my day.

Changing Places

I reread David Lodge's Changing Places yesterday. I suspect the last time I read it was at least twenty years ago, long before I'd visited Plotinus, stayed with friends in Ashland, met a Morris Zapp protegée and shacked up with a girl from Miranda County. Mercifully, even another twenty years hasn't resulted in any greater acquaintance with Rummidge. In those twenty years I've read most of Lodge's other works, with enjoyment, but had forgotten how different Changing Places is from his other work. CP, on rereading, proves to be far more experimental and self conscious than I remembered; partly written as conventional narrative, partly epistolary (complete with self referential obvious joke), partly screenplay. By and large though it works, though perhaps no better than his more conventionally structured work. Best of all, it still makes me laugh out loud and few authors do that (Off hand I can only think of Tom Sharpe). I'd say it's a 'must read' for anyone who either has had much experience of academia or of experience of living and working on both sides of the pond or, of course, both. I reckon that takes care of 90% of the f-list one way or another!

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