What I love about "They All Saw A Cat" - by Brendan Wenzel , is that it beautifully captures the concept of "perception". What we perceive with our senses, mind, preconceived bias, and background might not be "reality", the way that others perceive us with their senses, mind, preconceived bias, and backgrounds might not be what we "perceive" to be an accurate portrait of ourselves. Finally, is there such a thing as objective reality, or is everything just a mixture of perceptions, cultural constructs, and past experiences. The book begins with the "cat" walking through the world "with its whiskers, ears, and paws". The "cat" may have its own internal experiences based on its internal perceptions, but we are left to experience the "cat" through the eyes and perception of a child: Through a blury-eyed "fishbowl parallax": Through the frightened eyes of a mouse: Th...
