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"Suddenly the evidence overwhelmed me: there was no longer any reason to live, any reason to fight" and "Father! Father! Wake up. They're going to throw you outside."
Cats were praised for killing venomous snakes and protecting the Pharaoh since at least the First Dynasty of Egypt.
"His native home deep-imaged in his soul.
As the tired ploughman," homer's odessey
I'm not to sure, but I think that it is comparing the ploughman to his soul