The successor of Kater Murr

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The writer in the family, Henry, prefers writing by paw although he can also use the keyboard of the computer.

Sometimes finding the right words is agony.

But once the work is done he can sleep the sleep of the just.

Kater Murr is the feline fictional writer of the autobiography The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr. Murr, who is a proper fuddy-duddy of his time (early 19th century), writes his thoughts about his life and life in general on scrap paper he finds. On the flipsides of the papers are the fragments of a biography of the musician Kreisler, where ETA Hoffmann, the German Romantic-era author, set down his thoughts on art. The whole novel contrasts these two lives on opposite sides of the scale, it offers deep intellectual insights on Hoffmann’s ideas about art and aesthetics on the one hand, and humourous and wild anecdotes of the life of a tomcat.

Linked to the Ragtag Daily Prompt: Write.

Stern

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This sculpture of a man, presumably a church minister, sits in front of a bank in Lindenfels. I couldn’t find out anything else about him.

#1 The original had a lot of things going on in the background.

#2 I edited out the background.

#3 I flipped to negative and tweaked the contrast.

#4 I maxed out saturation.

#5 I overlaid artifical depth of field

Linked to One to Three Challenge in December.

Roses are red, rosehips are sweet

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“God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.”

James M. Barrie

And he also turned the roses into rosehips so we might eat rosehip jam all year round.

Linked to Travel with Intent. More posts inspired by James M. Barry‘s quote are linked here.