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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: Kreativity For Kats - -Author: Fritz Leiber - -Release Date: March 18, 2016 [EBook #51493] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK KREATIVITY FOR KATS *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/cover.jpg" width="391" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="titlepage"> -<h1>KREATIVITY FOR KATS</h1> - -<p>By FRITZ LEIBER</p> - -<p>Illustrated by DICK FRANCIS</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Galaxy Magazine April 1961.<br /> -Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that<br /> -the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p> - -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus1.jpg" width="561" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p class="ph3"><i>They are the aliens among us—and<br /> -their ways and wonders are<br /> -stranger than extraterrestrials!</i></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Gummitch peered thoughtfully at the molten silver image of the sun in -his little bowl of water on the floor inside the kitchen window. He -knew from experience that it would make dark ghost suns swim in front -of his eyes for a few moments, and that was mildly interesting. Then he -slowly thrust his head out over the water, careful not to ruffle its -surface by rough breathing, and stared down at the mirror cat—the -Gummitch Double—staring up at him.</p> - -<p>Gummitch had early discovered that water mirrors are very different -from most glass mirrors. The scentless spirit world behind glass -mirrors is an upright one sharing our gravity system, its floor a -continuation of the floor in the so-called real world. But the world in -a water mirror has reverse gravity. One looks down into it, but the -spirit-doubles in it look <i>up</i> at one. In a way water mirrors are holes -or pits in the world, leading down to a spirit infinity or ghostly -nadir.</p> - -<p>Gummitch had pondered as to whether, if he plunged into such a pit, -he would be sustained by the spirit gravity or fall forever. (It may -well be that speculations of this sort account for the caution about -swimming characteristic of most cats.)</p> - -<p>There was at least one exception to the general rule. The looking glass -on Kitty-Come-Here's dressing table also opened into a spirit world of -reverse gravity, as Gummitch had discovered when he happened to look -into it during one of the regular visits he made to the dressing table -top, to enjoy the delightful flowery and musky odors emanating from the -fragile bottles assembled there.</p> - -<p>But exceptions to general rules, as Gummitch knew well, are only -doorways to further knowledge and finer classifications. The wind -could not get into the spirit world below Kitty-Come-Here's looking -glass, while one of the definitive characteristics of water mirrors -is that movement can very easily enter the spirit world below them, -rhythmically disturbing it throughout, producing the most surreal -effects, and even reducing it to chaos. Such disturbances exist only -in the spirit world and are in no way a mirroring of anything in the -real world: Gummitch knew that his paw did not change when it flicked -the surface of the water, although the image of his paw burst into -a hundred flickering fragments. (Both cats and primitive men first -deduced that the world in a water mirror is a spirit world because they -saw that its inhabitants were easily blown apart by the wind and must -therefore be highly tenuous, though capable of regeneration.)</p> - -<p>Gummitch mildly enjoyed creating rhythmic disturbances in the spirit -worlds below water mirrors. He wished there were some way to bring -their excitement and weird beauty into the real world.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>On this sunny day when our story begins, the spirit world below the -water mirror in his drinking bowl was particularly vivid and bright. -Gummitch stared for a while longer at the Gummitch Double and then -thrust down his tongue to quench his thirst. Curling swiftly upward, -it conveyed a splash of water into his mouth and also flicked a single -drop of water into the air before his nose. The sun struck the drop and -it flashed like a diamond. In fact, it seemed to Gummitch that for a -moment he had juggled the sun on his tongue. He shook his head amazedly -and touched the side of the bowl with his paw. The bowl was brimful -and a few drops fell out; they also flashed like tiny suns as they -fell. Gummitch had a fleeting vision, a momentary creative impulse, -that was gone from his mind before he could seize it. He shook his head -once more, backed away from the bowl, and then lay down with his head -pillowed on his paws to contemplate the matter. The room darkened as -the sun went under a cloud and the young golden dark-barred cat looked -like a pool of sunlight left behind.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus2.jpg" width="334" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Kitty-Come-Here had watched the whole performance from the door to the -dining room and that evening she commented on it to Old Horsemeat.</p> - -<p>"He backed away from the water as if it were poison," she said. "They -have been putting more chlorine in it lately, you know, and maybe he -can taste the fluorides they put in for dental decay."</p> - -<p>Old Horsemeat doubted that, but his wife went on, "I can't figure out -where Gummitch does his drinking these days. There never seems to be -any water gone from his bowl. And we haven't had any cut flowers. And -none of the faucets drip."</p> - -<p>"He probably does his drinking somewhere outside," Old Horsemeat -guessed.</p> - -<p>"But he doesn't go outside very often these days," Kitty-Come-Here -countered. "Scarface and the Mad Eunuch, you know. Besides, it hasn't -rained for weeks. It's certainly a mystery to me where he gets his -liquids. Boiling gets the chlorine out of water, doesn't it? I think -I'll try him on some tomorrow."</p> - -<p>"Maybe he's depressed," Old Horsemeat suggested. "That often leads to -secret drinking."</p> - -<p>This baroque witticism hit fairly close to the truth. Gummitch <i>was</i> -depressed—had been depressed ever since he had lost his kittenish -dreams of turning into a man, achieving spaceflight, learning and -publishing all the secrets of the fourth dimension, and similar -marvels. The black cloud of disillusionment at realizing he could only -be a cat had lightened somewhat, but he was still feeling dull and -unfulfilled.</p> - -<p>Gummitch was at that difficult age for he-cats, between First Puberty, -when the cat achieves essential maleness, and Second Puberty, when he -gets broad-chested, jowly and thick-ruffed, becoming a fully armed -sexual competitor. In the ordinary course of things he would have been -spending much of his time exploring the outer world, detail-mapping the -immediate vicinity, spying on other cats, making cautious approaches -to unescorted females and in all ways comporting himself like a -fledgling male. But this was prevented by the two burly toms who lived -in the houses next door and who, far more interested in murder than the -pursuit of mates, had entered into partnership with the sole object of -bushwacking Gummitch. Gummitch's household had nicknamed them Scarface -and the Mad Eunuch, the latter being one of those males whom "fixing" -turns, not placid, but homicidally maniacal. Compared to these seasoned -heavyweights, Gummitch was a welterweight at most. Scarface and the Mad -Eunuch lay in wait for him by turns just beyond the kitchen door, so -that his forays into the outside world were largely reduced to dashes -for some hiding hole, followed by long, boring but perilous sieges.</p> - -<p>He often wished that old Horsemeat's two older cats, Ashurbanipal and -Cleopatra, had not gone to the country to live with Old Horsemeat's -mother. They would have shown the evil bushwackers a thing or two!</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Because of Scarface and the Mad Eunuch, Gummitch spent most of his -time indoors. Since a cat is made for a half-and-half existence—half -in the wild forest, half in the secure cave—he took to brooding quite -morbidly. He thought over-much of ghost cats in the mirror world -and of the Skeleton Cat who starved to death in a locked closet and -similar grisly legends. He immersed himself in racial memories, not so -much of Ancient Egypt where cats were prized as minions of the lovely -cat-goddess Bast and ceremoniously mummified at the end of tranquil -lives, as of the Middle Ages, when European mankind waged a genocidal -war against felines as being the familiars of witches. (He thought -briefly of turning Kitty-Come-Here into a witch, but his hypnotic -staring and tentative ritualistic mewing only made her fidgety.) And he -devoted more and more time to devising dark versions of the theory of -transmigration, picturing cats as Silent Souls, Gagged People of Great -Talent, and the like.</p> - -<p>He had become too self-conscious to re-enter often the make-believe -world of the kitten, yet his imagination remained as active as ever. It -was a truly frustrating predicament.</p> - -<p>More and more often and for longer periods he retired to meditate in -a corrugated cardboard shoebox, open only at one end. The cramped -quarters made it easier for him to think. Old Horsemeat called it the -Cat Orgone Box after the famed Orgone Energy Accumulators of the late -wildcat psychoanalyst Dr. Wilhelm Reich.</p> - -<p>If only, Gummitch thought, he could devise some way of objectifying -the intimations of beauty that flitted through his darkly clouded -mind! Now, on the evening of the sunny day when he had backed away -from his water bowl, he attacked the problem anew. He knew he had been -fleetingly on the verge of a great idea, an idea involving water, light -and movement. An idea he had unfortunately forgotten. He closed his -eyes and twitched his nose. I must concentrate, he thought to himself, -concentrate....</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Next day Kitty-Come-Here remembered her idea about Gummitch's water. -She boiled two cupfuls in a spotless enamelware saucepan, letting -it cool for half an hour before using it to replace the seemingly -offensive water in the young cat's bowl. It was only then she noticed -that the bowl had been upset.</p> - -<p>She casually assumed that big-footed Old Horsemeat must have -been responsible for the accident, or possibly one of the two -children—darting Sissy or blundering Baby. She wiped the bowl and -filled it with the water she had dechlorinated.</p> - -<p>"Come here, Kitty, come here," she called to Gummitch, who had been -watching her actions attentively from the dining room door. The young -cat stayed where he was. "Oh, well, if you want to be coy," she said, -shrugging her shoulders.</p> - -<p>There was a mystery about the spilled water. It had apparently -disappeared entirely, though the day seemed hardly dry enough for total -evaporation. Then she saw it standing in a puddle by the wall fully ten -feet away from the bowl. She made a quick deduction and frowned a bit -worriedly.</p> - -<p>"I never realized the kitchen floor sloped <i>that</i> much," she told Old -Horsemeat after dinner. "Maybe some beams need to be jacked up in -the basement. I'd hate to think of collapsing into it while I cooked -dinner."</p> - -<p>"I'm sure this house finished all its settling thirty years ago," her -husband assured her hurriedly. "That slope's always been there."</p> - -<p>"Well, if you say so," Kitty-Come-Here allowed doubtfully.</p> - -<p>Next day she found Gummitch's bowl upset again and the remains of the -boiled water in a puddle across the room. As she mopped it up, she -began to do some thinking without benefit of Concentration Box.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>That evening, after Old Horsemeat and Sissy had vehemently denied -kicking into the water bowl or stepping on its edge, she voiced her -conclusions. "I think <i>Gummitch</i> upsets it," she said. "He's rejecting -it. It still doesn't taste right to him and he wants to show us."</p> - -<p>"Maybe he only likes it after it's run across the floor and got -seasoned with household dust and the corpses of germs," suggested Old -Horsemeat, who believed most cats were bohemian types.</p> - -<p>"I'll have you know I <i>scrub</i> that linoleum," Kitty-Come-Here asserted.</p> - -<p>"Well, with detergent and scouring powder, then," Old Horsemeat amended -resourcefully.</p> - -<p>Kitty-Come-Here made a scornful noise. "I still want to know where he -gets his liquids," she said. "He's been off milk for weeks, you know, -and he only drinks a little broth when I give him that. Yet he doesn't -seem dehydrated. It's a real mystery and—"</p> - -<p>"Maybe he's built a still in the attic," Old Horsemeat interjected.</p> - -<p>"—and I'm going to find the answers," Kitty-Come-Here concluded, -ignoring the facetious interruption. "I'm going to find out <i>where</i> -he gets the water he does drink and <i>why</i> he rejects the water I give -him. This time I'm going to boil it and put in a pinch of salt. Just a -pinch."</p> - -<p>"You make animals sound more delicate about food and drink than -humans," Old Horsemeat observed.</p> - -<p>"They probably are," his wife countered. "For one thing they don't -smoke, or drink Martinis. It's my firm belief that animals—cats, -anyway—like good food just as much as we do. And the same sort of good -food. They don't enjoy canned catfood any more than we would, though -they <i>can</i> eat it. Just as we could if we had to. I really don't think -Gummitch would have such a passion for raw horsemeat except you started -him on it so early."</p> - -<p>"He probably thinks of it as steak tartare," Old Horsemeat said.</p> - -<p>Next day Kitty-Come-Here found her salted offering upset just as the -two previous bowls had been.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Such were the beginnings of the Great Spilled Water Mystery that -preoccupied the human members of the Gummitch household for weeks. Not -every day, but frequently, and sometimes two and three times a day, -Gummitch's little bowl was upset. No one ever saw the young cat do it. -But it was generally accepted that he was responsible, though for a -time Old Horsemeat had theories that he did not voice involving Sissy -and Baby.</p> - -<p>Kitty-Come-Here bought Gummitch a firm-footed rubber bowl for his -water, though she hesitated over the purchase for some time, certain he -would be able to taste the rubber. This bowl was found upset just like -his regular china one and like the tin one she briefly revived from his -kitten days.</p> - -<p>All sorts of clues and possibly related circumstances were seized upon -and dissected. For instance, after about a month of the mysterious -spillings, Kitty-Come-Here announced, "I've been thinking back and as -far as I can remember it never happens except on sunny days."</p> - -<p>"Oh, Good Lord!" Old Horsemeat reacted.</p> - -<p>Meanwhile Kitty-Come-Here continued to try to concoct a kind of water -that would be palatable to Gummitch. As she continued without success, -her formulas became more fantastic. She quit boiling it for the most -part but added a pinch of sugar, a spoonful of beer, a few flakes of -oregano, a green leaf, a violet, a drop of vanilla extract, a drop of -iodine....</p> - -<p>"No wonder he rejects the stuff," Old Horsemeat was tempted to say, but -didn't.</p> - -<p>Finally Kitty-Come-Here, inspired by the sight of a greenly glittering -rack of it at the supermarket, purchased a half gallon of bottled water -from a famous spring. She wondered why she hadn't thought of this step -earlier—it certainly ought to take care of her haunting convictions -about the unpalatableness of chlorine or fluorides. (She herself could -distinctly taste the fluorides in the tap water, though she never -mentioned this to Old Horsemeat.)</p> - -<p>One other development during the Great Spilled Water Mystery was that -Gummitch gradually emerged from depression and became quite gay. He -took to dancing cat schottisches and gigues impromptu in the living -room of an evening and so forgot his dignity as to battle joyously with -the vacuum-cleaner dragon when Old Horsemeat used one of the smaller -attachments to curry him; the young cat clutched the hairy round brush -to his stomach and madly clawed it as it <i>whuffled</i> menacingly. Even -the afternoon he came home with a shoulder gashed by the Mad Eunuch he -seemed strangely light-hearted and debonair.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The Mystery was abruptly solved one sunny Sunday afternoon. Going -into the bathroom in her stocking feet, Kitty-Come-Here saw Gummitch -apparently trying to drown himself in the toilet. His hindquarters were -on the seat but the rest of his body went down into the bowl. Coming -closer, she saw that his forelegs were braced against the opposite -side of the bowl, just above the water surface, while his head thrust -down sharply between his shoulders. She could distinctly hear rhythmic -lapping.</p> - -<p>To tell the truth, Kitty-Come-Here was rather shocked. She had certain -rather fixed ideas about the delicacy of cats. It speaks well for her -progressive grounding that she did not shout at Gummitch but softly -summoned her husband.</p> - -<p>By the time Old Horsemeat arrived the young cat had refreshed himself -and was coming out of his "well" with a sudden backward undulation. He -passed them in the doorway with a single mew and upward look and then -made off for the kitchen.</p> - -<p>The blue and white room was bright with sunlight. Outside the sky was -blue and the leaves were rustling in a stiff breeze. Gummitch looked -back once, as if to make sure his human congeners had followed, mewed -again, and then advanced briskly toward his little bowl with the air of -one who proposes to reveal all mysteries at once.</p> - -<p>Kitty-Come-Here had almost outdone herself. She had for the first time -poured him the bottled water, and she had floated a few rose petals on -the surface.</p> - -<p>Gummitch regarded them carefully, sniffed at them, and then proceeded -to fish them out one by one and shake them off his paw. Old Horsemeat -repressed the urge to say, "I told you so."</p> - -<p>When the water surface was completely free and winking in the sunlight, -Gummitch curved one paw under the side of the bowl and jerked.</p> - -<p>Half the water spilled out, gathered itself, and then began to flow -across the floor in little rushes, a silver ribbon sparkling with -sunlight that divided and subdivided and reunited as it followed the -slope. Gummitch crouched to one side, watching it intensely, following -its progress inch by inch and foot by foot, almost pouncing on the -little temporary pools that formed, but not quite touching them. Twice -he mewed faintly in excitement.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>"He's <i>playing</i> with it," Old Horsemeat said incredulously.</p> - -<p>"No," Kitty-Come-Here countered wide-eyed, "he's <i>creating</i> something. -Silver mice. Water-snakes. Twinkling vines."</p> - -<p>"Good Lord, you're right," Old Horsemeat agreed. "It's a new art form. -Would you call it water painting? Or water sculpture? Somehow I think -that's best. As if a sculptor made mobiles out of molten tin."</p> - -<p>"It's gone so quickly, though," Kitty-Come-Here objected, a little -sadly. "Art ought to last. Look, it's almost all flowed over to the -wall now."</p> - -<p>"Some of the best art forms are completely fugitive," Old Horsemeat -argued. "What about improvisation in music and dancing? What about -jam sessions and shadow figures on the wall? Gummitch can always do -it again—in fact, he must have been doing it again and again this -last month. It's never exactly the same, like waves or fires. But it's -beautiful."</p> - -<p>"I suppose so," Kitty-Come-Here said. Then coming to herself, she -continued, "But I don't think it can be healthy for him to go on -drinking water out of the toilet. Really."</p> - -<p>Old Horsemeat shrugged. He had an insight about the artistic -temperament and the need to dig for inspiration into the smelly -fundamentals of life, but it was difficult to express delicately.</p> - -<p>Kitty-Come-Here sighed, as if bidding farewell to all her efforts with -rose petals and crystalline bottled purity and vanilla extract and the -soda water which had amazed Gummitch by faintly spitting and purring at -him.</p> - -<p>"Oh, well," she said, "I can scrub it out more often, I suppose."</p> - -<p>Meanwhile, Gummitch had gone back to his bowl and, using both paws, -overset it completely. Now, nose a-twitch, he once more pursued the -silver streams alive with suns, refreshing his spirit with the sight -of them. He was fretted by no problems about what he was doing. He had -solved them all with one of his characteristically sharp distinctions: -there was the <i>sacred</i> water, the sparklingly clear water to create -with, and there was the water with character, the water to <i>drink</i>.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus3.jpg" width="593" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Kreativity For Kats, by Fritz Leiber - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK KREATIVITY FOR KATS *** - -***** This file should be named 51493-h.htm or 51493-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/1/4/9/51493/ - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: Kreativity For Kats - -Author: Fritz Leiber - -Release Date: March 18, 2016 [EBook #51493] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK KREATIVITY FOR KATS *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - - KREATIVITY FOR KATS - - By FRITZ LEIBER - - Illustrated by DICK FRANCIS - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Galaxy Magazine April 1961. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - - - - They are the aliens among us--and - their ways and wonders are - stranger than extraterrestrials! - - -Gummitch peered thoughtfully at the molten silver image of the sun in -his little bowl of water on the floor inside the kitchen window. He -knew from experience that it would make dark ghost suns swim in front -of his eyes for a few moments, and that was mildly interesting. Then he -slowly thrust his head out over the water, careful not to ruffle its -surface by rough breathing, and stared down at the mirror cat--the -Gummitch Double--staring up at him. - -Gummitch had early discovered that water mirrors are very different -from most glass mirrors. The scentless spirit world behind glass -mirrors is an upright one sharing our gravity system, its floor a -continuation of the floor in the so-called real world. But the world in -a water mirror has reverse gravity. One looks down into it, but the -spirit-doubles in it look _up_ at one. In a way water mirrors are holes -or pits in the world, leading down to a spirit infinity or ghostly -nadir. - -Gummitch had pondered as to whether, if he plunged into such a pit, -he would be sustained by the spirit gravity or fall forever. (It may -well be that speculations of this sort account for the caution about -swimming characteristic of most cats.) - -There was at least one exception to the general rule. The looking glass -on Kitty-Come-Here's dressing table also opened into a spirit world of -reverse gravity, as Gummitch had discovered when he happened to look -into it during one of the regular visits he made to the dressing table -top, to enjoy the delightful flowery and musky odors emanating from the -fragile bottles assembled there. - -But exceptions to general rules, as Gummitch knew well, are only -doorways to further knowledge and finer classifications. The wind -could not get into the spirit world below Kitty-Come-Here's looking -glass, while one of the definitive characteristics of water mirrors -is that movement can very easily enter the spirit world below them, -rhythmically disturbing it throughout, producing the most surreal -effects, and even reducing it to chaos. Such disturbances exist only -in the spirit world and are in no way a mirroring of anything in the -real world: Gummitch knew that his paw did not change when it flicked -the surface of the water, although the image of his paw burst into -a hundred flickering fragments. (Both cats and primitive men first -deduced that the world in a water mirror is a spirit world because they -saw that its inhabitants were easily blown apart by the wind and must -therefore be highly tenuous, though capable of regeneration.) - -Gummitch mildly enjoyed creating rhythmic disturbances in the spirit -worlds below water mirrors. He wished there were some way to bring -their excitement and weird beauty into the real world. - - * * * * * - -On this sunny day when our story begins, the spirit world below the -water mirror in his drinking bowl was particularly vivid and bright. -Gummitch stared for a while longer at the Gummitch Double and then -thrust down his tongue to quench his thirst. Curling swiftly upward, -it conveyed a splash of water into his mouth and also flicked a single -drop of water into the air before his nose. The sun struck the drop and -it flashed like a diamond. In fact, it seemed to Gummitch that for a -moment he had juggled the sun on his tongue. He shook his head amazedly -and touched the side of the bowl with his paw. The bowl was brimful -and a few drops fell out; they also flashed like tiny suns as they -fell. Gummitch had a fleeting vision, a momentary creative impulse, -that was gone from his mind before he could seize it. He shook his head -once more, backed away from the bowl, and then lay down with his head -pillowed on his paws to contemplate the matter. The room darkened as -the sun went under a cloud and the young golden dark-barred cat looked -like a pool of sunlight left behind. - -Kitty-Come-Here had watched the whole performance from the door to the -dining room and that evening she commented on it to Old Horsemeat. - -"He backed away from the water as if it were poison," she said. "They -have been putting more chlorine in it lately, you know, and maybe he -can taste the fluorides they put in for dental decay." - -Old Horsemeat doubted that, but his wife went on, "I can't figure out -where Gummitch does his drinking these days. There never seems to be -any water gone from his bowl. And we haven't had any cut flowers. And -none of the faucets drip." - -"He probably does his drinking somewhere outside," Old Horsemeat -guessed. - -"But he doesn't go outside very often these days," Kitty-Come-Here -countered. "Scarface and the Mad Eunuch, you know. Besides, it hasn't -rained for weeks. It's certainly a mystery to me where he gets his -liquids. Boiling gets the chlorine out of water, doesn't it? I think -I'll try him on some tomorrow." - -"Maybe he's depressed," Old Horsemeat suggested. "That often leads to -secret drinking." - -This baroque witticism hit fairly close to the truth. Gummitch _was_ -depressed--had been depressed ever since he had lost his kittenish -dreams of turning into a man, achieving spaceflight, learning and -publishing all the secrets of the fourth dimension, and similar -marvels. The black cloud of disillusionment at realizing he could only -be a cat had lightened somewhat, but he was still feeling dull and -unfulfilled. - -Gummitch was at that difficult age for he-cats, between First Puberty, -when the cat achieves essential maleness, and Second Puberty, when he -gets broad-chested, jowly and thick-ruffed, becoming a fully armed -sexual competitor. In the ordinary course of things he would have been -spending much of his time exploring the outer world, detail-mapping the -immediate vicinity, spying on other cats, making cautious approaches -to unescorted females and in all ways comporting himself like a -fledgling male. But this was prevented by the two burly toms who lived -in the houses next door and who, far more interested in murder than the -pursuit of mates, had entered into partnership with the sole object of -bushwacking Gummitch. Gummitch's household had nicknamed them Scarface -and the Mad Eunuch, the latter being one of those males whom "fixing" -turns, not placid, but homicidally maniacal. Compared to these seasoned -heavyweights, Gummitch was a welterweight at most. Scarface and the Mad -Eunuch lay in wait for him by turns just beyond the kitchen door, so -that his forays into the outside world were largely reduced to dashes -for some hiding hole, followed by long, boring but perilous sieges. - -He often wished that old Horsemeat's two older cats, Ashurbanipal and -Cleopatra, had not gone to the country to live with Old Horsemeat's -mother. They would have shown the evil bushwackers a thing or two! - - * * * * * - -Because of Scarface and the Mad Eunuch, Gummitch spent most of his -time indoors. Since a cat is made for a half-and-half existence--half -in the wild forest, half in the secure cave--he took to brooding quite -morbidly. He thought over-much of ghost cats in the mirror world -and of the Skeleton Cat who starved to death in a locked closet and -similar grisly legends. He immersed himself in racial memories, not so -much of Ancient Egypt where cats were prized as minions of the lovely -cat-goddess Bast and ceremoniously mummified at the end of tranquil -lives, as of the Middle Ages, when European mankind waged a genocidal -war against felines as being the familiars of witches. (He thought -briefly of turning Kitty-Come-Here into a witch, but his hypnotic -staring and tentative ritualistic mewing only made her fidgety.) And he -devoted more and more time to devising dark versions of the theory of -transmigration, picturing cats as Silent Souls, Gagged People of Great -Talent, and the like. - -He had become too self-conscious to re-enter often the make-believe -world of the kitten, yet his imagination remained as active as ever. It -was a truly frustrating predicament. - -More and more often and for longer periods he retired to meditate in -a corrugated cardboard shoebox, open only at one end. The cramped -quarters made it easier for him to think. Old Horsemeat called it the -Cat Orgone Box after the famed Orgone Energy Accumulators of the late -wildcat psychoanalyst Dr. Wilhelm Reich. - -If only, Gummitch thought, he could devise some way of objectifying -the intimations of beauty that flitted through his darkly clouded -mind! Now, on the evening of the sunny day when he had backed away -from his water bowl, he attacked the problem anew. He knew he had been -fleetingly on the verge of a great idea, an idea involving water, light -and movement. An idea he had unfortunately forgotten. He closed his -eyes and twitched his nose. I must concentrate, he thought to himself, -concentrate.... - - * * * * * - -Next day Kitty-Come-Here remembered her idea about Gummitch's water. -She boiled two cupfuls in a spotless enamelware saucepan, letting -it cool for half an hour before using it to replace the seemingly -offensive water in the young cat's bowl. It was only then she noticed -that the bowl had been upset. - -She casually assumed that big-footed Old Horsemeat must have -been responsible for the accident, or possibly one of the two -children--darting Sissy or blundering Baby. She wiped the bowl and -filled it with the water she had dechlorinated. - -"Come here, Kitty, come here," she called to Gummitch, who had been -watching her actions attentively from the dining room door. The young -cat stayed where he was. "Oh, well, if you want to be coy," she said, -shrugging her shoulders. - -There was a mystery about the spilled water. It had apparently -disappeared entirely, though the day seemed hardly dry enough for total -evaporation. Then she saw it standing in a puddle by the wall fully ten -feet away from the bowl. She made a quick deduction and frowned a bit -worriedly. - -"I never realized the kitchen floor sloped _that_ much," she told Old -Horsemeat after dinner. "Maybe some beams need to be jacked up in -the basement. I'd hate to think of collapsing into it while I cooked -dinner." - -"I'm sure this house finished all its settling thirty years ago," her -husband assured her hurriedly. "That slope's always been there." - -"Well, if you say so," Kitty-Come-Here allowed doubtfully. - -Next day she found Gummitch's bowl upset again and the remains of the -boiled water in a puddle across the room. As she mopped it up, she -began to do some thinking without benefit of Concentration Box. - - * * * * * - -That evening, after Old Horsemeat and Sissy had vehemently denied -kicking into the water bowl or stepping on its edge, she voiced her -conclusions. "I think _Gummitch_ upsets it," she said. "He's rejecting -it. It still doesn't taste right to him and he wants to show us." - -"Maybe he only likes it after it's run across the floor and got -seasoned with household dust and the corpses of germs," suggested Old -Horsemeat, who believed most cats were bohemian types. - -"I'll have you know I _scrub_ that linoleum," Kitty-Come-Here asserted. - -"Well, with detergent and scouring powder, then," Old Horsemeat amended -resourcefully. - -Kitty-Come-Here made a scornful noise. "I still want to know where he -gets his liquids," she said. "He's been off milk for weeks, you know, -and he only drinks a little broth when I give him that. Yet he doesn't -seem dehydrated. It's a real mystery and--" - -"Maybe he's built a still in the attic," Old Horsemeat interjected. - -"--and I'm going to find the answers," Kitty-Come-Here concluded, -ignoring the facetious interruption. "I'm going to find out _where_ -he gets the water he does drink and _why_ he rejects the water I give -him. This time I'm going to boil it and put in a pinch of salt. Just a -pinch." - -"You make animals sound more delicate about food and drink than -humans," Old Horsemeat observed. - -"They probably are," his wife countered. "For one thing they don't -smoke, or drink Martinis. It's my firm belief that animals--cats, -anyway--like good food just as much as we do. And the same sort of good -food. They don't enjoy canned catfood any more than we would, though -they _can_ eat it. Just as we could if we had to. I really don't think -Gummitch would have such a passion for raw horsemeat except you started -him on it so early." - -"He probably thinks of it as steak tartare," Old Horsemeat said. - -Next day Kitty-Come-Here found her salted offering upset just as the -two previous bowls had been. - - * * * * * - -Such were the beginnings of the Great Spilled Water Mystery that -preoccupied the human members of the Gummitch household for weeks. Not -every day, but frequently, and sometimes two and three times a day, -Gummitch's little bowl was upset. No one ever saw the young cat do it. -But it was generally accepted that he was responsible, though for a -time Old Horsemeat had theories that he did not voice involving Sissy -and Baby. - -Kitty-Come-Here bought Gummitch a firm-footed rubber bowl for his -water, though she hesitated over the purchase for some time, certain he -would be able to taste the rubber. This bowl was found upset just like -his regular china one and like the tin one she briefly revived from his -kitten days. - -All sorts of clues and possibly related circumstances were seized upon -and dissected. For instance, after about a month of the mysterious -spillings, Kitty-Come-Here announced, "I've been thinking back and as -far as I can remember it never happens except on sunny days." - -"Oh, Good Lord!" Old Horsemeat reacted. - -Meanwhile Kitty-Come-Here continued to try to concoct a kind of water -that would be palatable to Gummitch. As she continued without success, -her formulas became more fantastic. She quit boiling it for the most -part but added a pinch of sugar, a spoonful of beer, a few flakes of -oregano, a green leaf, a violet, a drop of vanilla extract, a drop of -iodine.... - -"No wonder he rejects the stuff," Old Horsemeat was tempted to say, but -didn't. - -Finally Kitty-Come-Here, inspired by the sight of a greenly glittering -rack of it at the supermarket, purchased a half gallon of bottled water -from a famous spring. She wondered why she hadn't thought of this step -earlier--it certainly ought to take care of her haunting convictions -about the unpalatableness of chlorine or fluorides. (She herself could -distinctly taste the fluorides in the tap water, though she never -mentioned this to Old Horsemeat.) - -One other development during the Great Spilled Water Mystery was that -Gummitch gradually emerged from depression and became quite gay. He -took to dancing cat schottisches and gigues impromptu in the living -room of an evening and so forgot his dignity as to battle joyously with -the vacuum-cleaner dragon when Old Horsemeat used one of the smaller -attachments to curry him; the young cat clutched the hairy round brush -to his stomach and madly clawed it as it _whuffled_ menacingly. Even -the afternoon he came home with a shoulder gashed by the Mad Eunuch he -seemed strangely light-hearted and debonair. - - * * * * * - -The Mystery was abruptly solved one sunny Sunday afternoon. Going -into the bathroom in her stocking feet, Kitty-Come-Here saw Gummitch -apparently trying to drown himself in the toilet. His hindquarters were -on the seat but the rest of his body went down into the bowl. Coming -closer, she saw that his forelegs were braced against the opposite -side of the bowl, just above the water surface, while his head thrust -down sharply between his shoulders. She could distinctly hear rhythmic -lapping. - -To tell the truth, Kitty-Come-Here was rather shocked. She had certain -rather fixed ideas about the delicacy of cats. It speaks well for her -progressive grounding that she did not shout at Gummitch but softly -summoned her husband. - -By the time Old Horsemeat arrived the young cat had refreshed himself -and was coming out of his "well" with a sudden backward undulation. He -passed them in the doorway with a single mew and upward look and then -made off for the kitchen. - -The blue and white room was bright with sunlight. Outside the sky was -blue and the leaves were rustling in a stiff breeze. Gummitch looked -back once, as if to make sure his human congeners had followed, mewed -again, and then advanced briskly toward his little bowl with the air of -one who proposes to reveal all mysteries at once. - -Kitty-Come-Here had almost outdone herself. She had for the first time -poured him the bottled water, and she had floated a few rose petals on -the surface. - -Gummitch regarded them carefully, sniffed at them, and then proceeded -to fish them out one by one and shake them off his paw. Old Horsemeat -repressed the urge to say, "I told you so." - -When the water surface was completely free and winking in the sunlight, -Gummitch curved one paw under the side of the bowl and jerked. - -Half the water spilled out, gathered itself, and then began to flow -across the floor in little rushes, a silver ribbon sparkling with -sunlight that divided and subdivided and reunited as it followed the -slope. Gummitch crouched to one side, watching it intensely, following -its progress inch by inch and foot by foot, almost pouncing on the -little temporary pools that formed, but not quite touching them. Twice -he mewed faintly in excitement. - - * * * * * - -"He's _playing_ with it," Old Horsemeat said incredulously. - -"No," Kitty-Come-Here countered wide-eyed, "he's _creating_ something. -Silver mice. Water-snakes. Twinkling vines." - -"Good Lord, you're right," Old Horsemeat agreed. "It's a new art form. -Would you call it water painting? Or water sculpture? Somehow I think -that's best. As if a sculptor made mobiles out of molten tin." - -"It's gone so quickly, though," Kitty-Come-Here objected, a little -sadly. "Art ought to last. Look, it's almost all flowed over to the -wall now." - -"Some of the best art forms are completely fugitive," Old Horsemeat -argued. "What about improvisation in music and dancing? What about -jam sessions and shadow figures on the wall? Gummitch can always do -it again--in fact, he must have been doing it again and again this -last month. It's never exactly the same, like waves or fires. But it's -beautiful." - -"I suppose so," Kitty-Come-Here said. Then coming to herself, she -continued, "But I don't think it can be healthy for him to go on -drinking water out of the toilet. Really." - -Old Horsemeat shrugged. He had an insight about the artistic -temperament and the need to dig for inspiration into the smelly -fundamentals of life, but it was difficult to express delicately. - -Kitty-Come-Here sighed, as if bidding farewell to all her efforts with -rose petals and crystalline bottled purity and vanilla extract and the -soda water which had amazed Gummitch by faintly spitting and purring at -him. - -"Oh, well," she said, "I can scrub it out more often, I suppose." - -Meanwhile, Gummitch had gone back to his bowl and, using both paws, -overset it completely. Now, nose a-twitch, he once more pursued the -silver streams alive with suns, refreshing his spirit with the sight -of them. He was fretted by no problems about what he was doing. He had -solved them all with one of his characteristically sharp distinctions: -there was the _sacred_ water, the sparklingly clear water to create -with, and there was the water with character, the water to _drink_. - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Kreativity For Kats, by Fritz Leiber - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK KREATIVITY FOR KATS *** - -***** This file should be named 51493.txt or 51493.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/1/4/9/51493/ - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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