Coraline
2009年8月17日 星期一
"Coraline sighed.
'Please. What's your name?' Coraline asked the cat, 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?'
The cat yawned slowly, carefully, revealing a mouth and tongue of astounding pinkness. 'Cats don't have names,' it said.
'No?' said Coraline.
'No,' said the cat. 'Now, you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.'
* * *
'Well, what if I wanted to call you?'
The cat wrinkled its nose and managed to look unimpressed. "Calling cats,' it confided, 'tends to be a rather overrated activity. Might as well call a whirlwind.' "
-Coraline-
Neil Gaiman
