
So it is Louis Wain who drew the cat pics which were featured in my 1st year psychology book. Those are very interesting drawings.
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Just the way/speed he's moving up above is freaking me out a bit.
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Thu 4 Sep 2008, 4:16,
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in retrospect I should have made the whiskers flop around too

hwe came up in conversation a few weeks back - a friend of mine here likes his drawings a whole bunch.
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Thu 4 Sep 2008, 5:30,
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innocent times, before anthropomorphic animal art got hijacked by creepy delusional nerds

about marginal illustrations in mediaeval manuscripts, I think we're ordering it.
plenty of cats and dogs with lutes, pipes and tabors
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Thu 4 Sep 2008, 6:02,
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plenty of cats and dogs with lutes, pipes and tabors

book sounds good - what's the title? i can lean on my local library to order it.
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Thu 4 Sep 2008, 6:11,
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they don't have any of the herbert rat books (crap horror lit) we were chatting about on /board a while back. i tried to reserve them and they're all being frozen in the reference library for some freakish reason.
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Thu 4 Sep 2008, 6:20,
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yeah, I remember those.
they have a shit lit reference section?
Unfortunately the original Wain books have never been reprinted, else I'd buy 'em for my niece & nephew.
The more recent collections will have to do.

i saw the titles online and when i went to reserve them, it was not permitted.
also, i have to mention to cockweasle that there are four books in the series, not three - apparently the last is acomic bookgraphic novel.
edit: never been reprinted? that's just weird.
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Thu 4 Sep 2008, 6:26,
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also, i have to mention to cockweasle that there are four books in the series, not three - apparently the last is a
edit: never been reprinted? that's just weird.