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all I can now remember was that (I think) it was by Bulwer Lytton
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Bulwer Lytton is most (in)famous for the opening line of an otherwise forgettable story: "It was a dark and stormy night." (He is also responsible for coining the proverb, "The pen is mightier than the sword.") There is an annual contest named for him that seeks to write the very worst possible opening line for a story. If he had had a Bulwer Lytton story about a cat read to him as a child, it is completely understandable that he would make cats part of the darkside of his storytelling...