(Left to Right: To Kill a Mocking Bird, The Bell Jar, A Confederacy of Dunces, Gatsby, The Old Man and The Sea, Huck Finn, Of Mice and Men, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)
One of the most warmly human things I’ve ever seen was an old parchment from the Irish middle ages, the scribe’s cat had walked across the page and left inky pawprints on the page.
FOUND IT!!!
Oh, here’s another:
It would appear that Asian scribes were also plagued by feline predations:
Nor shall he meanwhile suffer any evil or harm, until he sets foot upon his own land; but thereafter he shall suffer whatever fate the dread Spinners spun with their thread for him at his birth, when his mother bore him.
We don’t talk enough about how Bail decided to send Leia to retrieve Obi-Wan because he knew that reuniting the Skywalker twins under Obi-Wan’s guidance would be the fighting chance the Rebellion desperately needed in their darkest hour.