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  • Redefining One’s Position

    “I appreciate your suggestion, Mum, but I don’t want to cartoon a cat. I’ve been thinking that I would like to do a cartoon about…..” “….. Love.”

  • Maintaining One’s Position

    ….I don’t know why you won’t make a cartoon about a cat. Do you remember we’d go to the pictures and Smutty would be waiting for us outside the cinema when we came out? “I don’t remember … I think I was too young. I do remember him liking to sit on the white line in the middle of…

  • Declining Advice

    “Mum … I don’t think I want to make a cartoon about a cat.” Why ever not?  I would. “I didn’t think you were particularly fond of cats.”  I don’t know what you’re talking about. We used to have a cat. You remember Smutty, don’t you?   “Of course I remember him. But that’s not the point,…

  • The Limiting Nature Of Advice

    I don’t understand why you just can’t get on with it? Make a film, I mean.  It’s easy peasy. You could make one about a … … a CAT. See. There’s a good idea. Everyone likes cats.  All you’ve got to do is think up the story  and make the film …

  • Feeling Better

    Do you feel better about it now?  “Better about what?” The animating.   Now you’ve done some more of it. “Er… No. Not Really.” Blimey.