{"id":15923,"date":"2018-04-05T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T08:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=15923"},"modified":"2018-04-04T09:43:31","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T09:43:31","slug":"david-van-cauter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/david-van-cauter-2\/","title":{"rendered":"David Van-Cauter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-4884914039558955495m_2255111565885941428m_-5431174757353584444gmail-Body\"><b>String Theory<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-4884914039558955495m_2255111565885941428m_-5431174757353584444gmail-Body\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-4884914039558955495m_2255111565885941428m_-5431174757353584444gmail-Body\">My cats won\u2019t play with static toys:<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-4884914039558955495m_2255111565885941428m_-5431174757353584444gmail-Body\">they have to be balletic, with a puppeteer of human hands<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-4884914039558955495m_2255111565885941428m_-5431174757353584444gmail-Body\">to make a plain string dance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-4884914039558955495m_2255111565885941428m_-5431174757353584444gmail-Body\">The game becomes a battle, not of cat <i>v<\/i> string,<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-4884914039558955495m_2255111565885941428m_-5431174757353584444gmail-Body\">but of feline versus human<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-4884914039558955495m_2255111565885941428m_-5431174757353584444gmail-Body\">in multiple dimensions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-4884914039558955495m_2255111565885941428m_-5431174757353584444gmail-Body\">A flurry of movement, fur and claw,<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-4884914039558955495m_2255111565885941428m_-5431174757353584444gmail-Body\">is everything, a moment of release,<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-4884914039558955495m_2255111565885941428m_-5431174757353584444gmail-Body\">the creation of a wake<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-4884914039558955495m_2255111565885941428m_-5431174757353584444gmail-Body\">in which the instigator meets his shadow,<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-4884914039558955495m_2255111565885941428m_-5431174757353584444gmail-Body\">thrown in twisting, complex shapes,<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-4884914039558955495m_2255111565885941428m_-5431174757353584444gmail-Body\">outwitted by the light.<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-4884914039558955495m_2255111565885941428m_-5431174757353584444gmail-Body\">We all meet here, chasing our tails,<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-4884914039558955495m_2255111565885941428m_-5431174757353584444gmail-Body\">never quite seeing the point<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-4884914039558955495m_2255111565885941428m_-5431174757353584444gmail-Body\">but knowing how it moves, and will move on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-4884914039558955495m_2255111565885941428m_-5431174757353584444gmail-Body\">\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>David Van-Cauter<\/strong> is a personal tutor and editor from Hitchin, Herts.In 2017 he was runner-up in the Bradford on Avon festival competition and highly commended in the Bare Fiction competition. He was shortlisted for the last IS&amp;T Cafe Writers Commission.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; String Theory \u00a0 My cats won\u2019t play with static toys: they have to be balletic, with a puppeteer of human hands to make a plain string dance. The game becomes a battle, not of cat v string, but of feline versus human in multiple dimensions. 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