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He was also however symbolic of evil to Ruburt, and to some extent then conquered simply through the natural passage of events. With the death of Ruburt’s mother Rooney’s purpose was done as far as Ruburt was concerned; and Rooney did a final service, for through his death Ruburt faced the nature of pain and creaturehood that his mother’s life had so frightened him of.
The cat was aware in its terms of this. [...] It was fixed. [...]
The cat was male, called originally Katherine however, and identified as female. [...] He was willing however to trade these for several years of additional physical life, in which he also learned for the first time to relate to gentleness; even to be on terms with another cat, and Willy in his way served as a mentor.
[...] He was not a passive receptor however, the cat, and he even learned from his encounters with Jack Wall. [...] (Very important.) Rooney however is free of a distrust that he had carried with him, having to do with his background in that house, this time, across the way, and was grateful for those additional years you gave him.
[...] In certain terms it was tragic and painful but it was not Ruburt’s fault, and within it his mother achieved a different kind of knowledge and even triumphant experience.
His interpretation in Dialogues of Rooney’s existence was excellent. [...]
[...] In your terms it was a probable death. [...]
[...] He was afraid of the cat, considering him wild and caged originally, as his mother had been in his interpretation, so he felt forced to help the cat (who did not have any love for him), as he felt before he had to help his mother—who would kill him if she had the chance.
[...] Ruburt’s aunt was looking from without, and the consciousness of Ruburt’s mother left the body as Rooney’s did. [...]
Ruburt’s mother was turned in different directions, and her reality existed quite apart from any daughter. [...]