The Language of Cats (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Spencer Holst
- First Published: 1971
- Type of Plot: Fantasy
- Time of Work: The 1970's
- Setting: West Virginia and Washington, D.C.
- Principal Characters: The scientist, His wife, His Siamese cat
- Genres: Short fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: History, Language or languages, 1970’s, Love or romance, South or Southerners, Communication, Mental illness, Cats, War, Servants, Experiments, Ciphers or code names
- Locales: Washington, D.C., West Virginia
The Story
A thirty-five-year-old scientist is a brilliant breaker of codes whose skills saved the world during a recent war. However, although his wife is extremely neat, the scientist is a slob who leaves his clothes lying about and accidentally starts fires in wastepaper baskets. She nags him constantly, but because he is a gentleman who will not argue with her, he leaves her, moving into a cottage in West Virginia with a Siamese cat.
The beautiful blue-point Siamese hypnotizes its owner. Soon the scientist loses all interest in people, even in books, and the cat...
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