5 Cats Do Go To Heaven Remembering

absence in the written record. With an acerbic wit that reminds me of Mary O'Brien she quoted an "old gentle-man, who is dead now, but was a bishop " who "declared that it was impossible for any woman, past, present, or hture to come to have the genius of Shakespeare.... " In an unconscious couplet the bishop likewise opined that "cats do not as a matter of fact go to heaven, though they have... souls of a sort. " Woolf praised the deceased bishop sarcastically saying "How.much thinking those old gentle-men used to save one! How the borders of ignorance shrank back at their approach! Cats do not go to heaven. Women cannot write the plays of Shakespeare " (48). The bishop might just as well have pronounced that only men could lift off into the bracing sky-blue air of high theory, as uncontaminated as heaven itself by creatural women