{"id":177,"date":"2026-09-09T03:21:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T03:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tnf.ola.mybluehost.me\/rw\/2026-autumn\/?page_id=177"},"modified":"2026-09-23T04:17:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T04:17:56","slug":"felines-and-fantasy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/societyforritualarts.com\/rw\/2026-autumn\/felines-and-fantasy\/","title":{"rendered":"FELINES AND FANTASY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style data-wp-block-html=\"css\">\n.topLinks {\n font-family: 'Alegreya SC', serif;\n font-size: 21px;\n font-weight: 500;\n width: 100%;\n display: flex;\n column-gap: 24px;\n margin-top: 24px;\n}\n\n.topLinks h3 {\n display: inline;\n}\n\n.topLinks .center {\n text-align: center;\n}\n\n.topLinks .right {\n text-align: right;\n}\n\n.topLinks > div {\n flex: 1 1 0;\n}\n\n.editorial p {\n\ttext-indent: 32px;\n}\n.pinafore {\n\tfont-size: 21px;\n\tfont-weight: 700;\n\tmargin-block-end: .25em;\n\tmargin-block-start: .25em;\n}\n.third {\n\tmargin-block-end: 2em;\n}\n.pinafore, h2 {\n\ttext-align: center;\n}\n.columns {\n\tdisplay: flex;\n}\n.leftColumn {\n\twidth: 30%;\n}\n.rightColumn {\n\tpadding: 0 16px;\n\twidth: 70%;\n}\n.leftColumn, .rightColumn {\n\tdisplay: inline-block;\n}\n.author {\n height: auto;\n width: 100%;\n border: 2px solid black;\n}\nh1, h2 {\n font-family: 'Alegreya SC';\n text-align: center;\n}\nh1 {\n\tfont-size: 36px;\n\tmargin-block-end: 1.5em;\n\tmargin-block-start: 1.5em;\n\ttext-align: center;\n}\nh2 {\n\tfont-size: 28px;\n\tmargin-block-end: 1.5em;\n}\nimg {\n object-fit: contain;\n}\n@media(max-width: 860px) {\n.columns {\n display: block;\n}\n\t.leftColumn, .rightColumn {\n\t\twidth: 100%;\n\t}\n\t.rightColumn {\n\t\tpadding: 0;\n\t}\n}\n<\/style>\n\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"FELINES AND FANTASY\n\">\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A dog makes his feelings clear, but the cat is a master of ambiguity. When a feline shows affection, we feel honored. When she wraps her tail around her feet and fixes you with an inscrutable gaze, you wonder what she knows. In European witch-lore, the cat is the traditional familiar. Writers also work magic, and since a ninth-century Irish monk compared his own literary efforts to the stalking hunt of his white cat, Pangur B\u00e1n, felines have been favored companions. When I first started seriously writing, my ginger queen cat, Brunhilda, used to curl up to absorb the energy of the pile of typed manuscript. When I shifted to composing on a computer, she napped atop the printer.\">\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"\/rw\/2026-autumn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Paxson.jpg\">\n<main class=\"editorial\">\n\t<div class=\"topLinks\">\n\t\t<div class=\"left\">\n\t\t\t<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/societyforritualarts.com\/coreopsis\/\">Journals Home<\/a><\/h3>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"center\">\n\t\t\t<h3><a href=\"\/rw\/2026-autumn\/table-of-contents\/\">Table of Contents<\/a><\/h3>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"right\">\n\t\t\t<h3><a href=\"\/rw\/2026-autumn\/shes-a-nightmare-3\/\">Next Wondrous Tale<\/a><\/h3>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div>\n\t\t<h1>A note from this issue\u2019s Guest Editor<br>Diana L. Paxson<\/h1>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"columns\">\n\t\t<div class=\"leftColumn\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"author\" src=\"\/rw\/2026-autumn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Paxson.jpg\">\n\t\t\t<p>Diana and the Greyhaven Kittens<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/rw\/2026-autumn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/YarnBall.webp\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"rightColumn\">\n\t\t\t<h2>FELINES AND FANTASY<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"pinafore\">\u201cWhat was that?\u201d<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"pinafore\">\u201cIt was the cat.\u201d<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"pinafore third\"><i>(H.M.S. Pinafore)<\/i><\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>What is it about cats that makes them so fascinating?<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>A dog makes his feelings clear, but the cat is a master of ambiguity. When a feline shows affection, we feel honored. When she wraps her tail around her feet and fixes you with an inscrutable gaze, you wonder what she knows. In European witch-lore, the cat is the traditional familiar. Writers also work magic, and since a ninth-century Irish monk compared his own literary efforts to the stalking hunt of his white cat, Pangur B\u00e1n, felines have been favored companions. When I first started seriously writing, my ginger queen cat, Brunhilda, used to curl up to absorb the energy of the pile of typed manuscript. When I shifted to composing on a computer, she napped atop the printer.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>It is no surprise to find cats making themselves at home in literature. Some literary cats, like Puss in Boots, are themselves magical. Others, like the ephemeral Cheshire Cat in <i>Alice in Wonderland<\/i>, or Dr. Seuss\u2019s Cat in the Hat, challenge our concept of reality. Literary cats can be tough, like Mikhail Bulgakov\u2019s Behemoth (<i>The Master and Margarita<\/i>), or Terry Pratchett\u2019s Maurice (<i>The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents<\/i>), and Pratchett\u2019s terrifying Greebo. Other fictional cats, like the Siamese who reveal clues to their owner in <i>The Cat Who\u2026<\/i> mystery series by Lilian Jackson Braun, appear to be ordinary animals, although, as in the case of Carol Danvers\u2019s cat in the <i>Captain Marvel<\/i> movie, they may be revealed as something else entirely. Robert Heinlein\u2019s novels include the time-traveling Pixel (<i>The Cat Who Walks Through Walls<\/i> and <i>To Sail Beyond the Sunset<\/i>) and Petronius the Arbiter (Pete) in <i>The Door into Summer<\/i>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>Although cats often appear mysteriously solitary, folklore includes figures like the King of the Cats, all of whom are subjects of his kingdom. In Diane Duane\u2019s <i>Young Wizard<\/i> books, cat wizards manage interdimensional travel. The series by Tad Williams that began with <i>Tailchaser\u2019s Song<\/i> presents a community of felines with its own politics and customs, as does David Weber with the Treecats in the Honor Harrington books. <i>Old Possum&#8217;s Book of Practical Cats<\/i> by T.S. Eliot, which reveals the hidden lives of cats in our own civilization, transcended genres to become the enduring musical, <i>Cats<\/i>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>With such a wealth of examples from the worlds of the imagination, it is not a stretch to suspect cats of playing a role in history, hence, the theme of this issue. In \u201cSusu the Palmyrene\u201d by Mary Salome, a cat of Egyptian descent serves Queen Zenobia. \u00b4Louise Michel\u2019s \u201cMoggie or: Jig-a-Leg the Lollygagger and the Communard Cats\u201d by Angelisa Fontaine-Woo resonates with 19th-century French patriotism. In Kimberly Choi\u2019s \u201cYes I Know Not\u201d, we meet a Daimon, a cat, and Socrates. A Parisian bistro called Le Chat Noir is a nexus that transcends time in \u201cThe Cat of the Mosque\u201d by Adam Porkolab, in which a gray cat passes through the bistro to the Hungarian city of P\u00e9cs in three different centuries. The cat of Andrea Tillmanns\u2019s \u201cArdurian Scouts,\u201d on the other hand, is from a possible near future. In \u201cHousecats,\u201d by Torger Vedeler, the cat is the guide back and forth through time and memory. In this issue cats also move through the poetry, with references from Dr. Moreau to T.S. Eliot, transcending time and space.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>Today, after ten years without a cat at our house, three ginger kittens rescued from a laundromat are sleeping in the cat carrier in which they arrived. Will one of them become my new familiar? 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