by Bruno Liljefors (1860–1939)
✤✤✤✤✤✤✤
“What's your name,” Coraline asked the cat. “Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?”
“Cats don't have names,” it said.
“No?” said Coraline.
“No,” said the cat. “Now you people have names.
That's because you don't know who you are.
We know who we are, so we don't need names.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
“Curiosity killed the cat,” Fesgao remarked, his dark eyes unreadable.
Aly rolled her eyes. Why did everyone say that to her?
“People always forget the rest of the saying,” she complained.
“‘And satisfaction brought it back.”
― Tamora Pierce, Trickster's Choice
[1] Original image from Wikimedia.
[2] The Real Victorian's digitally enhanced version of the painting (seen above), downloadable as an 8” x 10” @ 300 ppi JPEG.
Digitally enhanced reproductions of public domain paintings are shared under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.