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TrickyDick42
Since: Apr, 2011
28th May, 2011 09:48:54 PM
it sounds like "For Us the Living" by Robert A. Heinlein.
Jcatgrl
Since: Oct, 2009
28th Jun, 2011 03:50:39 PM
Yes, that was it! Thank you!
Cats can lie in wait for hours, then suddenly pounce on a butterfly.
This guy somehow ended up many decades into the future, I think it was some sort of accident that brought him there. He meets this woman who teaches him about the society he's ended up in. Nudity is no longer taboo, free love is the norm, there's no such thing as marriage anymore, if you say you're married, you are, polygamy is not frowned upon. It's got some Zee Rust elements, like moving sidewalks, and it was very Mary Sue Topia-ish.