R2E Excerpt #53: A Stolen Cat, Living For Eternity in the British Museum

The cat-lover lived in Egypt 2,500 years ago. But now his feline was in England, just as lost as I was. WRITTEN & ILLUSTRATED BY PETER MOORE

When the mood strikes, I run excerpts here from A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG NINCOMPOOP, my coming-of-age-travel-memoir-with-funny-drawings.

(The first entry is here. Most recent one is here. If you wonder who the hell I am that I should write my coming-of-age story, click here.) It details the story of my road through Paris, London, and god help me, Zagreb, in search of the ultimate destination: a life worth living. The story so far: Young Peter arrived in Paris, occupied a dorm room at the Alliance Française language school, tiptoed out onto the Boulevard Raspail and the Paris Metro, and made my first steps on the road to elsewhere. Then I went to England. Big mistake. But mistakes are, of course, the first step on the road to elsewhere.