The title of the album is a play on words with the children's game Chinese whispers, it includes the singles "Let's Go to Bed", "The Walk" and "The Love Cats". At the time that "The Love Cats" was written, Robert Smith the lead vocalist for The Cure was very much interested in the work of Australian author Patrick White.
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The title of the album is a play on words with the children's game Chinese whispers, it includes the singles "Let's Go to Bed", "The Walk" and "The Love Cats". At the time that "The Love Cats" was written, Robert Smith the lead vocalist for The Cure was very much interested in the work of Australian author Patrick White.
According to a number of his fans, Smith was inspired to write "The Love Cats" after reading White's novel The Vivisector (1970), although this claim is difficult to verify. In the novel, the protagonist, Hurtle, is appalled when his lover's husband drowns a sack of stray cats. White draws a parallel between the way in which the cats are discarded, and the treatment of certain characters in the book; by extension, the cats symbolise the most innocent and vulnerable members of society, and the casual cruelty with which they sometimes meet their fate. [...]
