I was intrigued by a quote from Saul Bellow, "I was the cat who walked by himself", and traced it to a story a story by Rudyard Kipling, "The Cat that Walked by Himself". The story begins this way: "Hear and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was, O my Best Beloved, when the Tame animals were wild. The Dog was wild, and the Horse was wild, and the Cow was wild, and the Sheep was wild, and the Pig was wild-as wild as wild could be-and they walked in the Wet Wild Woods by their wild lones. But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him." The story goes on about a service performed by the Cat and the Cat's negotiations with the Man's wife, the Man, and the Dog, all of which are tainted by pride and the Cat's independence. The story ends this way: "Then the Man threw his two boots and his little stone axe (that makes three) at the Cat, and the Cat ran out of the Cave and the Dog chased him up a tree; and from that day to this, Best Beloved, three proper Men out of five will always throw things at a Cat whenever they meet him, and all proper Dogs will chase him up a tree. But the Cat keeps his side of the bargain too. He will kill mice and he will be kind to Babies when he is in the house, just as long as they do not pull his tail too hard. But when he has done that, and between times, and when the moon gets up and night comes, he is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him. Then he goes out to the Wet Wild Woods or up the Wet Wild Trees or on the Wet Wild Roofs, waving his wild tail and walking by his wild lone." Quotes from Florida Center for Instructional Technology (FCIT) (http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go). The image mimics a silhouette drawing Kipling did to illustrate the story. Here's what Kipling said about the illustration: "THIS is the picture of the Cat that Walked by Himself, walking by his wild lone through the Wet Wild Woods and waving his wild tail. There is nothing else in the picture except some toadstools. They had to grow there because the woods were so wet. The lumpy thing on the low branch isn't a bird. It is moss that grew there because the Wild Woods were so wet." The Wet Wild Woods are built from the Pine Forest, the toadstools are from RDNA Mushroomz. Zoe is forever the Millennium Cat. The Poser Pro render was post-processed in Corel Photopaint.