E. T. A. Hoffmann

“ The friends of Kapellmeister will at least be happy to know that, through the literary vandalism of the tomcat and through some news about the very strange circumstances, through his art, he does not seem to be an uninteresting man. ”

“ The editor wishes to sincerely apologize.
It is true, finally, that authors owe their wildest thoughts, the most extraordinary expressions, to their kind typesetters, through whose impulses they become the principal sponsors of ideas from so-called typographical errors. For example, the editor spoke, in the second part of his "Night Pieces" (Pag. 326) , of spacious groves that float in a garden. The typesetter was not genial enough, for he set the word groves to be instead graves. ”

“ Take care of this man; he deserves it."
The editor promised to do his best for the literary colleague. Somewhat surprised he was now, as his friend confessed to him that the manuscript was written by a tomcat, called Murr, and his resulting views on life were contained therein; but his word was given, and since the story seemed to him quite well written, he at once ran, with the manuscript in his pocket, to Mr. Duemmler in Unter den Linden and proposed for him to be the publisher of the cat book. ”