![]() ![]() Lovecraft also made a tribute to the cat by giving its name to the cat in the 1923 short story The Rats in the Walls. Lovecraft to Annie Gamwell,, Selected Letters of H. Lovecraft: A Biography 40Īnd my old nigger-man was leaping in & out of the shadowy bushes, occasionally deigning to let his Grandpa Theobald pick him up, put his green shining eye to the telescope, & show him the critical surfaces of remote planets-where for all we know the dominant denizens may be lithe, quadrupedal, sable-furred gentlemen exactly like Nigger-Man himself! And on summer evenings in the twilight he would prove his kinship to the elfin things of shadow by racing across the lawn on nameless errands, darting into the blackness of the shrubbery now & then, & occasionally leaping at me from ambush & then bounding away again into invisibility before I could catch him. ![]() He used to play ball with me-kicking a large rubber sphere back at me from half across the room with all four feet as he lay on the floor. There was even a special "prrr'p" for the smell of roast chestnuts, on which he dotes. He used to talk in a genuine language of varied intonations-a special tone for every different meaning. What a boy he was! I watched him grow from a tiny black handful to one of the most fascinating & understanding creatures I've ever seen. ![]()
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