Saturday, September 29, 2018

The belling of the cat


I have spent all week with this story in my mind. I wrote a facebook post - noting that, for so many of us, we are watching Dr. Blasey bell a cat that we could not. Then I took it down because it felt too public (this site is more public but has many fewer viewers).

I want to write the next chapter of Aesop's fable, where the sacrificial mouse steps forward and bravely bells the cat. And the cat turns around [claws out] and says, "What the hell are you doing? I'm not a cat! [hiss] What goes around comes around, mousey. I'm not going anywhere!!!" And half the mice fall all over themselves to say "Oh of course you're not a cat! This is insane!"