But First, Neglected Queries Department

Eager though we are to return to "Gone with the Captists," posting our synopsis reminded us that we never answered RBUD's question from way back about the War Between the States of the Soul. We meant to, and then we forgot.
After we answered Karen's question about who Big Pooh was, RBUD asked, "Is War Between the States of The Soul a new appelation? Or do I just not remember it?"
RBUD, many ardent Captists have always used this term to refer to the Captist-UnCaptist War. Since we are moderate Captists, however, we did not have occasion to use it on the blog until Anastasia explained what a bear lady was, and our description of Big Pooh was the second time.

And since we are moderately good Captists, we feel we must put the minds of the Cats of Ulthar to rest. After various upsetting allusions to "catgut" were made in recent comments, they wrote, "We must say that we take umbrage at all these references to Cat Gut being thrown around. ME-YOW!"
Cats of U., catgut was always made from sheep intestines, and is now usually a synthetic substitute such as perlon, unless you are playing old music and going for a historically authentic sound. Real gut goes out of tune all the time and does not have as bright a sound as modern strings.