Truth is stranger than fiction according to many people who have seen what happens around me and to them, on many occasions. Sometimes I have had others affect me in the same way. This is part of the story told in my article The Man who Loved Jail.The Cat:the cat meowed and moved slowly out of his wayhe knew it wanted somethingbut it didn't come to his outstretched handso he meowedshe winkedhe feltthey parted friendsperhaps never to meet againthe Earth was pliant under footthe trees engulfed his.