Dennis Avner (August 27, 1958 – November 5, 2012) of Tonopah, Nevada, United States, was widely known as "Cat Man", though he preferred his Native American name, Stalking Cat. Avner spent considerable resources to surgically modify his body to resemble that of a tiger. He held the world record for the most body modifications. He worked as a computer programmer.
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“Figure him there, with his scrofulous diseases, with his great greedy heart, and unspeakable chaos of thoughts; stalking mournful as a stranger in this Earth; eagerly devouring what spiritual thing he could come at: school-languages and other merely grammatical stuff, if there were nothing better! The largest soul that was in all England.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
“There was a crooked man, and he went a crooked mile,
He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile:
He bought a crooked cat which caught a crooked mouse,
And they all lived together in a little crooked house.”
—Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. There was a crooked man, and he went a crooked mile (l. 1–4)