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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Set initially in the same universe as The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress and The Rolling Stones, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls is one of Robert A. Heinlein's later works. It features yet another soldier-of-fortune in the character of Richard Ames, a retired colonel who begins the story living on a cushy space station. His easy life is quickly upended when he marries Gwen Novak, who is secretly a Time Agent, and on a mission to save the universe. Richard and Gwen are chased across the galaxy by unknown enemies, and eventually take refuge in a multiverse paradise, populated by many familiar characters from other Heinlein books, including Jubal Harshaw and the ubiquitous Lazarus Long, the latter of whom tries to recruit Richard into his Time Police. Lazarus' ultimate goal is to rescue Mycroft Holmes, a dormant supercomputer with the power to perfectly predict the consequences of time manipulations.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The story operates heavily on the ideas perpetuated in Time Enough for Love and The Number of the Beast — The World as Myth, Heinlein's personal philosophies regarding group marriages and the perils of socialism. It also features one of the most confusing endings of any of Heinlein's novels, leaving two characters stranded and alone and refusing to say whether or not anything was actually achieved. In fact, the resolution to the Cliffhanger ending is not revealed until the sequel, To Sail Beyond the Sunset.Despite the title, this is definitely not a part of The Cat Who... Series.
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_109bc3e	comment	Eat the Dog: When passing through Lunar customs, Gwen claims to keep a baby alligator in her purse and declares it to the agent as a pet and possibly food. She is lying, of course; what she really wants is to avoid having the purse searched.
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_10de0193	type	Time-Travel Romance
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_10de0193	comment	Time-Travel Romance: Played so casually as to be almost flippant, given the Burroughs device's capability to render time no more of a barrier to a relationship than walking a few yards. The most obvious examples include Gwen with Richard, Gretchen with Richard, and Lazarus with Richard's mother.
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_17e1ec88	type	Genius Breeding Act
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_17e1ec88	comment	Genius Breeding Act: The Burroughs from The Number of the Beast have by this point in their continuity had a number of children among themselves and with Libby Andy Long, all of whom are indeed supergeniuses.
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: The Manager of the space station where Richard lives evicts him in a passive-aggressive manner by turning off his lights, changing his locks, and refusing to acknowledge that any such was done. Gwen gets even by smearing Limburger cheese on the heating element in the Manager's office.
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_272abb98	comment	Shoot the Shaggy Dog: At the end, Gwen and Richard are both wounded (Gwen severely), and have been left behind in the retreat from Mike's mainframe. They have no way of knowing if the mission was successful, and are certain to die if their enemies return to finish them off. Part of Richard's Rage Against the Author has to do with this.
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_2b80abf4	type	Trivial Title
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_2b80abf4	comment	Trivial Title: The eponymous cat is a very minor character which shows up near the end and doesn't do much, apart from walking through a wall or two... and, in doing so the last time, saves the mission from failure.
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_2b9031ee	comment	Privately Owned Society: The Golden Rule space station, and on Earth, some corporations have gained voting rights.
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_2c385759	type	Massive Multiplayer Crossover
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_2c385759	comment	Massive Multiplayer Crossover: Courtesy of World as Myth, the novel features characters from: Glory Road The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress The Number of the Beast Stranger in a Strange Land Time Enough for Love The Rolling Stones and a meta-fictional example (Gwen is Hazel from this story and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress) in a character from Gwen's television serial.
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_2d4d16d9	type	I Know You Know I Know
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_2d4d16d9	comment	I Know You Know I Know: Lazarus and his enemies at times seem to be playing this sort of game, in a Sherlock and Moriarty fashion, over who can be more successful at making their manipulations stick. At one point, an entire starbase is nova bombed by their adversaries, after which his team of genius mathematicians figures out a scheme to rescue all its people just prior to the event, so that the attack appeared to be successful but nobody was actually lost.
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_34e15b76	type	Kindhearted Cat Lover
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_34e15b76	comment	Kindhearted Cat Lover: All of the protagonists are this, another Heinlein trademark.
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_4482e1ef	comment	Divided States of America: Although not discussed in any great detail, this novel is in the same timeline as Friday, where this occurred.
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_4499cea4	comment	Secondhand Storytelling: The Final Battle against the rival time force is not narrated at all, but recounted via Richard's dictated journal recording, which we are supposed to think is posthumous.
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_44db43ce	comment	Staged Shooting: Richard thinks that this has happened and that he's being framed for a fake murder. It turns out later to have been real.
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_49f6a9e4	comment	Most Writers Are Writers: Richard is a writer. He views it as an obnoxious habit, much like smoking, and warns Gwen when she proposes to him that she'll have to deal with him when he gets the itch.
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_4a59e6f7	comment	One Nation Under Copyright: The Golden Rule space station is run by the Golden Rule Corporation. The Manager is the one and only law, and if you don't pay your air tax, you get Thrown Out the Airlock... or worse.
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_54d6f53f	comment	Ripple Effect-Proof Memory: Discussed — it fades after a while.
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_55b1f9a1	type	Easy Amnesia
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_55b1f9a1	comment	Easy Amnesia: Tertius medicine seldom employs anesthetic drugs; instead they engage a field that interrupts storage of short term memories. You can be awake and alert while things are done to you, but won't remember it afterward.
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_56855fa3	comment	Casual Interstellar Travel: The World As Myth has been taken to its logical conclusion in this novel, with the Burroughs device enabling instantaneous travel from any point in space-time-universe to any other, and thereby making war possible on a scale never seen before.
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_57b74bd4	comment	Achievements in Ignorance: Pixel, the titular cat, can walk through walls and possibly through space-time-universe. At a loss to explain how, the characters theorize that he doesn't realize that he can't.
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_5b9b4a19	type	Almighty Mom
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_5b9b4a19	comment	Almighty Mom: "Auntie" Washington, who springs Richard and Gwen from Hong Kong Luna through sheer force of personality.
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_62fd5552	comment	Bavarian Fire Drill: Gwen's misdirection of a customs agent starts with claiming she has a baby alligator in her purse and ends with the two exchanging recipes.
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: All of Heinlein's favorites make an appearance—group marriages, free love, TAANSTAFL, witty (and somewhat sexist) innuendo. This book practically runs on Author Appeal.
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_68da6712	type	Canon Welding
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_68da6712	comment	Canon Welding: An integral part of The World as Myth concept, this novel brings together heroes from every other timeline Heinlein wrote in the effort to rescue Mycroft Holmes from Luna.
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_72b4977e	type	Limb-Sensation Fascination
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_72b4977e	comment	Limb-Sensation Fascination: Richard gets a replacement for the foot he lost in the war. The first thing he does is faint. The second is spend a day reliving the marvel of having two fully functional feet.
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: Richard is black.
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_73d1a356	type	The Noun Who Verbed
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_73d1a356	comment	The Noun Who Verbed: The title.
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_79a0e313	comment	Bolivian Army Ending: Richard and Gwen are stranded and apparently left for dead, wounded and nearly out of ammo, and expecting the return of their enemies at any second.
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_7cdfe326	comment	Cosmic Retcon: By way of persuading Richard to join his organization, Lazarus arranges for a particular unsavory incident from Richard's past to have never happened. This is of course to demonstrate the power of the Burroughs device to literally rewrite histories on a whim.
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_7ef7e1cd	type	Every Man Has His Price
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_7ef7e1cd	comment	Every Man Has His Price: Richard and Gwen bribe their way through Luna, where this seems to be standard operating practice. Richard himself appears incorruptible but succumbs to a more indirect form of bribery: having his past rewritten.
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_80b5924	comment	Left Hanging: Some of the characters at the end. This is in part to expand on the concept of characters being written by an eternal and possibly ambivalent Author. Subverted in that Gretchen is pregnant with Richard's child and he hasn't had sex with her... yet. So we know he survives.
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_85557b38	comment	Reality Is Unrealistic: Discussed Trope. Richard is a retired colonel and tried writing war novels, but couldn't sell them because he wrote too accurately.
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_860b267a	comment	Kinky Spanking: Young Gretchen offers to let Richard spank her as a blatant sexual proposal. He turns her down, telling her to grow up first. Thanks to Time Travel, she does, and reinstates the offer. Richard also repeatedly threatens to do this to Gwen, but we never see him carry it out.
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_8a9eb844	comment	Perspective Flip: In one alternate universe, Albert Einstein is seen as a villain worse than even Adolf Hitler, because he is blamed for the invention of nuclear weapons.
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_92cca75b	comment	Ret-Gone: One of the members of Lazarus' Time Police force shoots Richard in a fit of anger, and so they arrange to have him removed from existence. The effect is described as like seeing him rubbed out by an invisible eraser, followed immediately by the mortal wound that he inflicted vanishing.
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_959cb9aa	comment	One Degree of Separation: Thanks to multiversal Time Travel mayhem, it turns out that Richard is Lazarus' son, and thus comes by his obstreperousness very naturally.
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_966b4df0	comment	Time Police: Lazarus has founded an organization of Multiversal sentinels whose mandate is to protect the integrity of history across multiple universes.
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_9d6427ec	type	Time Travel
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_9d6427ec	comment	Time Travel: The massive overlapping use of this throughout the novel leaves the protagonist hopelessly confused at times, and by proxy, the readers.
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_a7b324e	type	Handicapped Badass
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_a7b324e	comment	Handicapped Badass: Richard walks with a cane thanks to an artificial foot — the original was lost in war. On Tertius, he gets a clone graft replacement.
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_a9882ce2	comment	Extruded Book Product: Richard claims to write pulp romance novels of no literary merit purely to pay his bills. He says he tried writing war novels, but his personal experience made it impossible for him to write stories that readers would accept due to Reality Is Unrealistic.
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_ad22fa80	comment	Apocalyptic Log: The story is written in first person and framed as Richard writing his memoirs. The final Cliffhanger is written as a recovered journal recording, without revealing to the reader whether Richard survives or not.
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_b593baf1	comment	Author Filibuster: Heinlein is (in)famous for this. This book is not quite as bad as others, but there are a few notable instances, particularly when the main character is shouting or sneering at bureaucracy.
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_b7c85c86	comment	Free-Love Future: On some planets, and most especially Tertius. Richard, who comes from relatively free Luna, is shocked by the level of perceived promiscuity on Tertius, but being a Heinlein character, he quickly adapts.
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_c83a589c	comment	Luke, I Am Your Father: The typical formula is varied here by having the son be told by a third party after figuring out that his donated cloned-tissue foot belongs to Lazarus (because Lazarus is walking around barefoot, like everyone else). Lazarus being his father (thanks to Time Travel) is why Richard's body didn't reject the foot from Lazarus's clone.
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_d0f2df7e	comment	Monowheel Mayhem: Richard and Gwen are attacked on the Moon by a heavily armed monowheel. It looks anachronistic because it is; it's one of the rival time factions trying to kill him.
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_e0904aa4	comment	No Party Like a Donner Party: Richard has a black stain on his soul — in a particularly desperate moment, his squad was forced into cannibalism to survive. Lazarus arranges to remove it.
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