The Black Cat, Edgar Allan Poe, p 513

The term "perversenses" can be very complicated for anyone to understand.  I, myself, own cats, and feel that the term relates to their nine lifes.  This may be myth or reality, depending on how one relates to the animal.  I feel that cats do indeed have nine lifes, they pervere through many tradegeties and obsticles.  Climbing trees, running from dogs, and other preditors.