Short-a-Day: Michael Ondaatje's "The Cat's Table"
Originally published in The New Yorker. Personal enjoyment rating (out of 100): 65.Either I'm getting better at identifying excerpts passing as short stories or The New Yorker is getting less obvious about these fictional teases. I'm going with the latter for this one: the situation's inventive enough such that with a little trimming and focus, Ondaatje could have had a real winner on our hands. Instead, he seems uns…