On 13 September 2017 00:56:07 GMT-04:00, Suresh Ramasubramanian <sur...@hserus.net> wrote: >Hm. What’s that stuff they smoke in those parts? Qat? Kif? Whatever >it is the rabbi was on, I’d like some please. It’d be fun to hold >conversations with a cat or dog. >
If I remember correctly, I think the cat eats the rabbi's favoured talking canary and gains the power of speech. The rabbi proclaims that it was stealing and has a bunch of parables, and the cat has an existentialist rebuttal to religion. Smoked canary apparently does wonders for your perceptions of reality. >On 13/09/17, 10:23 AM, "silklist on behalf of Aadisht Khanna" ><silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus....@lists.hserus.net on behalf of >li...@aadisht.net> wrote: > >The Rabbi's Cat by Joann Sfar is a graphic novel about a Tunisian (I >think, >but definitely North African) rabbi whose cat gains the power of speech >and > then engages the rabbi in theological debate. -- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.