But while the author addressed the
leopard's spots and the elephant's trunk, he never explained the zebra's stripes.
The
Leopard's Spots: Essays on Language, Cognition and Culture
In ten essays, contributors re-charge and pay tribute to Griggs's nearly forgotten memory with such topics as Griggs and the borderlands of empire, imperium in imperia and Griggs, Hales and Griggs (men without a country), black class mobility, death and narrative in Griggs, social Darwinism and American imperialism, the origin of the science of efficiency in Griggs's Unfettered, "vile misrepresentations" in The Hindered Hand and The
Leopard's Spots, Chestnutt's and Griggs's last novels, Jim Crow and the practice of fiction, and perfecting the political romance.
But there is a significant twist - Frank used to be a top cat burglar, and since you can't change a
leopard's spots, he is inclined to return to his old ways, this time using the robot as back-up.
A
leopard's spots for example, an old dog's tricks, a tramp's underpants.
Rabidly anti-Black books such as The Negro a Beast, 1900; The
Leopard's Spots, 1902; and The Clansman, 1905, prepared the way for the Ku Klux Klan.
From a zebra's stripes or a
leopard's spots to expanses of evenly spaced sand dunes, pattern formation is a common natural phenomenon.
His first novel was The
Leopard's Spots (1902); with The Clansman and The Traitor (1907), it forms a trilogy about the South during Reconstruction.