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Old 11-26-2018, 09:50 AM   #60
FoolofaTook
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I just downloaded the Books of Earthsea, containing everything from the cycle. It's got the last of the stories, which was written not long before Ursula passed.
Check out this description of a grimalkin:

"The cat sauntered round the foot of the low bed and elevated himself weightlessly onto it. He had been fed. He sat down and washed his face and ears, wetting one paw patiently over and over, and then undertook extensive cleansing of his hind parts, sometimes holding a back paw up with a front paw so that he could clean the claws, or holding down his tail as if expecting it to try to get away. Now and then he looked up for a minute, immobile, with a strange absent gaze, as if listening for instructions. At last he gave a little belch and settled down beside Ged’s ankles, arranging himself to sleep."

 
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