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Re: quote from Verne re cats?

From: boutin <boutin~at~versailles.inra.fr>
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 15:07:16 +0200
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Excellent Garmt ... your reply of course ... not the cat.
Jean-Pierre (a French who also like very much snails and rabbits but
who never ate cat ... to his knowledge ...)

Le lundi, 26 avr 2004, à 09:33 Europe/Paris, Garmt de Vries a écrit :

> On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 Andrew.Nash~at~reuters.com wrote:
>
>> Can anyone confirm that Verne did indeed say this?
>>
>> "I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could
>> walk on a cloud without coming through."
>> Jules Verne
>>
>> True or not!?
>
> I was going to say "absolutely not", but because I can't be 100% sure,
> I'll just say that I would be very very surprised if it were true.
> Verne
> was a dog man. I can't even think of a single cat occurring in any
> work by
> him, except the one eaten by Fogg in Bombay.
>
> Cheers,
> Garmt.
>
Received on Mon 26 Apr 2004 - 16:07:43 IDT

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