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Meow.\u003c\/em\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e So begins Sam Austen's searing debut novel: an expansive, stream-of-consciousness fusillade decipherable only by cats, which may very well be a raucous, cogent satire laying waste to the literary establishment and the concept of language itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Or it may not.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Here, the experts weigh in: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"\u003cem\u003eMeow meow meow meow meow meow meow, meow meow meow. Meow meow meow meow meow meow, meow meow, meow. Meow meow.\u003c\/em\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e - Professor Beans, Unaltered Domestic Shorthair\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"\u003cem\u003eMeow meow meow, meow meow meow meow! Meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow. 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