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Cathedral Cats

By: Richard Surman
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 000627658X
ISBN-13: 9780006276586
Released: 21 Oct 1993
RRP: £9.99
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Surman opens our heart not only for cats ... - By: FrizzText, 30 Jun 2005
The British journalist Richard Surman has worked 27 years long as a professional photographer world-wide for advertising clients & airlines - now he retreated to Spain with his South American wife to rest - however he is still nostalgic remembering back to his ancient Old England lifestyle-roots, its old-venerable church wallls, canons, organists - & their cats. So he not only lists some of the most beautiful cathedrals in the U.K., but also adds the life-history of the cats living there beneath people working behind old church-wallls. "Cats don't belong to people, they belong to places ..." once Wright Morris said - Richard Surman now delivers the photographies desrcibing this axiom. For example the story of the cat TOMKINS, who is designated after a composer: when cats-"owner" Peter Nardone, organist & Director of Music at Chelmsford Cathedral begins to mistreat the organ practising J.S. Bach, "Tomkins makes his way hastily upstairs to the guest bedroom, clambers onto the bed & sticks his head under a pillow." But Tomkins on the other hand takes pains to be helpful: "He always callls when the newspapers come through the letter box - though this may have more to do with his habit of sleeping on the doormat than a deliberate policy of helpfulness." A second example for the authors humoristic writing-style: Olsen, the cat of the Bishop of Chester, the Rt Rev. Dr Peter Foster, & his Danish wife Elizabeth, - Olsen "was tempted to dismiss the religious life. He turned instead to the lure of nights in the city,..." ignored "warnings about 'drunks, vagabonds, ladies of the night & the worst elements of society". Olson every night "found the ideal surroundings for his inscrutable & laid-back style": the nearby Alexander's Jazz Theatre. Richard Surman opens our heart not only for cats, but also for the cosy country & church-lives - not poisened by big-urban-areas hectic, brings us near to a perception of a world, in which the time seems to stopp. This tiny book inexpensive & affectionately replaces an England vacation, if the purse is empty...