![]() ![]() Here’s a rather long example I liked, ‘mehitabel and her kittens’ (poor Archy cannot type capitals – although, as E.B. I don’t often read poetry, but this collection was enjoyable – a pleasant mixture of the silly, surreal, and profound. ![]() Oh, and she claims to have been reincarnated from Cleopatra. Despite these protestations, she is arguably not particularly ladylike… often detailing the savagings she has given gentlemen cats who have wronged her. No not though every day of it would draw new curses on my devoted head,-and those too, the curses of my child. archy of explanatory variables, based on their ability to discriminate be- tween the two groups (access, no access) of countries. The list of leading Thoroughbred racehorses contains the names of undefeated racehorses and other horses that had an outstanding race record in specific categories. Cobweb was an undefeated winner of the 1,000 Guineas and Epsom Oaks. ‘Toujours gai’ is her motto, as well as ‘there’s a dance in the old dame yet’, and ‘always the lady’. 1874, undefeated winner in 54 starts in five countries. The cockroach is Archy Mehitabel is a cat, and (unsurprisingly) my favourite of the few characters which enter the scene. And that is what this little book contains. They originated in a New York newspaper column, when Don Marquis apparently discovered that a cockroach had, in his absence, been writing vers libre on the typewriter. Well, in this case, I had never heard of Don Marquis or the cockroach and cat of the title. My friend Barbara gave me The Best of Archy and Mehitabel by Don Marquis for my birthday this year, with a note hoping that I didn’t have it already (always a worry when people give me books as presents). ![]()
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