Companion no more

[RCraigRobinson]

Michael, I've noticed a trend (trends being centered on personal perception/experience) that the idea of the Companion to the Champion seems to be less explicit in the body of your other works than with Elric and Moonglum.

I flirted with the idea between Manfred and St. Odhran but was not certain. Of course, as it happens in the m-verse, oftentimes the companions to the Champion are other incarnations of the Champion, depending on necessity.

Is there a Companion with the all-memory of John Daker? Jhary-a-Conel pops into my head but I cannot recall.

Or perhaps since you yourself are involved in the story, you are the Eternal Companion. :)

[Michael Moorcock]

Yes, Jhar's the all-remembering Companion. And it's true, not all ECs have companions. Sometimes other ECs are involved, yes. Me be the EC. You must be joking. I don't have the physique or the energy for it.

[Doc]

But you do have the sword in the broom closet. :D

[DeepFixer]

But you do have the sword in the broom closet. :D

But, then, he'll have two companions: Miss Linda, and the cat.

[Michael Moorcock]

As you know, I have to keep the sword in the broom closet in case it gets a taste for the cat. I doubt if it could hurt Ms Linda, however!
Maybe it's HIDING in the broom closet and I only think I put it there.

[DeepFixer]

As you know, I have to keep the sword in the broom closet in case it gets a taste for the cat.

That's true. Suck all nie lives at once--whew!

But, then again, no cat worth his whiskers and tail would get caught by a demon rune-sword, what with kitties being masters of time, space, dimensions(and tuna)!

[Michael Moorcock]

Yeah -- there's a problem. Neither of my cats like tuna. So what else might be uncatlike about them ? I can't take the risk. They are able to travel easily through time and space, of course, but that's a pretty ordinary quality in a cat, isn't it ?

[DeepFixer]

Yeah -- there's a problem. Neither of my cats like tuna. So what else might be uncatlike about them ? I can't take the risk. They are able to travel easily through time and space, of course, but that's a pretty ordinary quality in a cat, isn't it ?

How do they feel about lasagna?

They don't have access to your credit cards, do they? or have their own??

The wisdom and abilities of cats pass all understanding!

I'm just glad they don't have opposable thumbs. If they did, Humankind would be enslaved to the Feline Masters!!

[ThomasL]

In regards to the cats, they do seem to have a certain time/space mastery that I have personally witnessed.
The female can manipulate time/space to make you think you have forgotten to feed her, and waits patiently for you to go about this task.
The male will manipulate time/space so that it seems you have ignored him all day, when it seems that you petted and scratched him for hours.
Then again, I may only have imagined this. Or, they may have caused me to imagine that I only imagined this.

Now what was I talking about? :?


TL

[Whiskers]

Yeah -- there's a problem. Neither of my cats like tuna. So what else might be uncatlike about them ? I can't take the risk. They are able to travel easily through time and space, of course, but that's a pretty ordinary quality in a cat, isn't it ?

How do they feel about lasagna?

They don't have access to your credit cards, do they? or have their own??

The wisdom and abilities of cats pass all understanding!

I'm just glad they don't have opposable thumbs. If they did, Humankind would be enslaved to the Feline Masters!!

We'd only be enslaved for about 3 hours out of every day, but only at the worst possible moments.

[Michael Moorcock]

Maybe I should stop trying to encourage my cats to work up that dew claw into an opposable thumb so they can open their own cans. It
could all go horribly wrong.

[EverKing]

Yeah, they're scary enough without opposable thumbs...we have a cat that will only drink purified Culligan water. She's learned to work the spout herself too. And she opens our back door to let herself in when she's been out for a while...scary.

I guess that's what we get for thinking she was a boy when we frist got her and naming her General Jackson (Thomas Jonathan aka "Stonewall" of course...not the Jackson of New Orleans fame).

[Bill]

KInda reminds me of the movie "Meet The Parents" where Bob DeNiro tells Ben Stiller to not flush the downstairs toilet. He does, of course, and sewage spillage ensues, and Stiller blames the cat. Another character helpfully points out that this is ridiculous, becuase the cat doesn't even have thumbs.


Jack Byrnes: Did you flush this toilet?
Greg Focker: Maybe... You know what, maybe Jinx flushed it. I saw little Jinxy in there last night and he took a squatted... relieved himself.
Jack Byrnes: Jinx knows not to use that toilet and even if he did, he'd never flush it.
Greg Focker: What does it matter?
Jack Byrnes: The matter, Greg RN, is that when this toilet is flushed, it runs, and when you have a septic tank that's nearly full and a toilet that's been running all night, then you could have a hell of a problem.

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Jack Byrnes: That smell, Bob, is our shit. Focker flushed the toilet in the den.
Greg Focker: I told you Jack it wasn't me it was Jynx.
Jack Byrnes: FOCKER. I'm not gonna tell you again Jynx cannot flush the toilet he's a cat for Christ sakes.
Larry: The animal doesn't even have thumbs Focker.

[Michael Moorcock]

My cat sent a fax once. What can I say ?

[Anonymous]

What did your cat's FAX say? :lol: