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His most celebrated books include the bestselling Green Eggs and Ham, The Cat in the Hat, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, Horton Hatches the Egg, Horton Hears a Who !, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas !.
Robert A. Heinlein dedicated his 1985 novel The Cat Who Walks Through Walls to Anderson and eight of the other members of the Citizens ' Advisory Council on National Space Policy.
A quagga appears in a sequence in the Soviet Union's animated film The Cat Who Walked by Herself, in which a dog tracks the hoofprints of one, and a cat tells a boy of the Red Book of endangered species, and how Quagga had " her track severed " ( that is, made extinct ) due to Man's selfish actions.
Some of these books, such as The Number of the Beast and The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, start out as tightly constructed adventure stories, but transform into philosophical fantasias at the end.
It is a matter of opinion whether this demonstrates a lack of attention to craftsmanship or a conscious effort to expand the boundaries of science fiction, either into a kind of magical realism, continuing the process of literary exploration that he had begun with Stranger in a Strange Land, or into a kind of literary metaphor of quantum science ( The Number of the Beast dealing with the Observer problem, and The Cat Who Walks Through Walls being a direct reference to the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment ).
The tendency toward authorial self-reference begun in Stranger in a Strange Land and Time Enough for Love becomes even more evident in novels such as The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, whose first-person protagonist is a disabled military veteran who becomes a writer, and finds love with a female character who, like many of Heinlein's strong female characters, appears to be based closely on his wife Ginny.
* The Cat Who Walks Through Walls by Robert A. Heinlein begins in 2188.
* ESP, the acronym for " Edd Smith's People " and " Edd Smith Place " in " The Pirate's Chest " bookstore in the fictional work The Cat Who Went Bananas honoring the bibliophile character Eddington Smith ( volume 27 of the Cat Who series by Lilian Jackson Braun )
Other books in this cycle include Methuselah's Children, Time Enough for Love, The Number of the Beast, and The Cat Who Walks Through Walls.
Maureen is ostensibly recording the events of the book while being held in a future prison, awaiting her uncertain fate, along with Pixel, the eponymous character of The Cat Who Walks Through Walls.
She is a major character in The Rolling Stones and in later Heinlein novels, most notably The Cat Who Walks Through Walls.
This theme is echoed elsewhere in Heinlein's works — that real liberty is to be found among the pioneer societies out along the advancing frontier, but the regimentation and legalism that follow bring restraints that chafe true individualists ( an idea emphasized in the first and final page of the novel, and in the later book The Cat Who Walks Through Walls ).
The setting of the novel was revisited by Heinlein in his late-period novel, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, as was the character Hazel Stone, who appeared as a minor character in the Lunar revolution and a central character in Heinlein's earlier book, The Rolling Stones / Space Family Stone ( 1952 ).
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls: A Comedy of Manners is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1985.
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls may be regarded as part of Heinlein's multiverse series, or as a sequel to both The Number of the Beast and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress.
The Shipstone, the extrasolar colonies Fiddler's Green, Proxima and Botany Bay, and the start of the balkanization of North America are mentioned in The Cat Who Walks Through Walls.
" Slipstick " Libby became one of Heinlein's recurring characters, and would later appear in several works associated with Lazarus Long, among them Methuselah's Children and The Cat Who Walks Through Walls.
Hazel, Castor, and Pollux reappear in The Number of the Beast and The Cat Who Walks Through Walls.
Dr. Lowell Stone (" Buster ") is quoted in interstitial material in The Cat Who Walks Through Walls and referenced as Chief Surgeon at Ceres General.
Foreign artists who have performed at Liseberg include Bob Marley, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Cliff Richard, Nightwish, Delta Rhythm Boys, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cat Stevens, The Beach Boys, The Kinks, The Who, PJ Proby, Frank Zappa with The Mothers Of Invention, Bill Haley & His Comets, Procul Harum and Toto, among others.
* Dundee, a fictional cat in " The Pirate's Chest " bookstore in the Cat Who series by Lilian Jackson Braun

Cat and Walks
* The Cat Who Walks Through Walls ( 1985 )
Lazarus also appears as a minor character in The Cat Who Walks Through Walls and plays a role in Heinlein's last novel, To Sail Beyond the Sunset, which is the life story of Maureen.
Robert A. Heinlein's later books ( The Number of the Beast, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls and To Sail Beyond the Sunset ) propose the idea that every real universe is a fiction in another Universe.
In The Number of the Beast by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1980, positronic brains are mentioned fleetingly in chapter 46 as a threatened replacement for Dora, a space yacht's computer from various others of Heinlein's books, including The Cat Who Walks Through Walls.
Lazarus Long also appears in The Number of the Beast and The Cat Who Walks Through Walls.
* The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, a 1985 novel by Robert A. Heinlein should also not be confused with the Cat Who ... series.
Robert A. Heinlein dedicated his 1985 novel The Cat Who Walks Through Walls to

Cat and Through
Another adaptation, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, was produced by Joseph Shaftel Productions ( distributed by Fox-Rank productions ) in 1972, and is felt by many to be the most faithful adaptation to the original novel, with the exception of the omitted scene with the Cheshire Cat ( Roy Kinnear ) replaced by Tweedledum and Tweedledee ( in a scene which remains faithful to their respective scene from Alice Through the Looking Glass ).
Through producer Steve Krantz, Bakshi made his debut feature film, Fritz the Cat, released in 1972.
Through the course of film Stray Cat finds herself entangled with many characters, particularly a young girl named Sayoko who wishes to become an assassin herself.

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* Finally, Marcel Aymé deserves a sprecial mention for his humorous and fantastic universe that combines wit and social satire with fantasy, in works such as Le Passe-Muraille Walker Through The Walls ( 1943 ) about an obscure clerk who acquires the power to walk through solid objects and his animal fables, Les contes du chat perché Tales of the Crouching Cat ( 1931 ).

Cat and names
Many names for pubs that appear nonsensical may have come from corruptions of old slogans or phrases, such as " The Bag o ' Nails " ( Bacchanals ), " The Goat and Compasses " ( God Encompasseth Us ), " The Cat and the Fiddle " ( Caton Fidèle ) and " The Bull and Bush ", which purportedly celebrates the victory of Henry VIII at " Boulogne Bouche " or Boulogne-sur-Mer Harbour.
The list of local and alternate names the bowfin is known by is lengthy, but common ones include " dogfish ", " mudfish ", " grindle " ( or " grinnel ")," swamp muskie ", " black fish ", " cottonfish " " swamp bass ", " poisson-castor ", " Speckled Cat " " beaverfish ", " Cypress trout " and " lawyer ".
After he refused to name names, pointing out that he had never attended a Communist Party meeting, he found himself composing music for movies such as Robot Monster and Cat Women of the Moon, a step down from his earlier Sudden Fear and Saturday's Hero.
A number of animals were described by Pallas, and his surname is included in their common names, including: Pallas's Cat, Pallas's Long-tongued Bat, Pallas's Tube-nosed Fruit Bat, Pallas's Squirrel, Pallas's Warbler, Pallas's Cormorant, Pallas's Fish-eagle, Pallas's Gull, Pallas's Sandgrouse, Pallas's Rosefinch, and Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler.
Cat is also a name or a nickname, either as standalone or as a shorthand for longer names like Catherine or its variants.
In addition, the novels above are sometimes published as 3-in-1 volumes or omnibus box sets under various names playing on the general title themes ( such as Two Cats, Three Tales or The Cat Who Put Four in a Box ).
* In February 2006, U. S. Senator Ted Stevens ( R-AK ) stated in a committee hearing that his wife Catherine had been subjected to questioning at an airport as to whether she was Cat Stevens due to the similarity of their names.
The rights to Sad Sack, Black Cat, and certain other Harvey characters are still owned by Alan Harvey, and have been published under the names of Lorne-Harvey Publications and Re-Collections.
Two years later an essay in the Spectator echoed this complaint, deriding among others such contemporary paired names as ' Bell and Neat's Tongue ', though accepting ' Cat and Fiddle '.
Many old names for pubs that appear nonsensical are often alleged to have come from corruptions of slogans or phrases, such as " The Bag o ' Nails " ( Bacchanals ), " The Cat and the Fiddle " ( Caton Fidele ) and " The Bull and Bush ", which purportedly celebrates the victory of Henry VIII at " Boulogne Bouche " or Boulogne-sur-Mer Harbour.
Gratuitous, often sadistic violence is mixed with near childlike naivety, with characters having comic book names like " Panther " and " Cat Burglar ".
Full of love and thanksgiving, Scarlett names her Katie Colum O ' Hara, and calls her " Cat " because of her green eyes.

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