The Naming of Cats by T.S. Eliot
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British (England - Cockney, Estuary, East End) British (General)Transcript
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the naming of cats is a difficult matter. It isn't just one of your holiday gangs. You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter when I tell you, a cut must have three different names. First of all, there's the name that the family use daily, such as Peter Augustus, Alonzo or James, such as Victor or Jonathan George or Bill Bailey, all of them sensible everyday names. There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter. Some for the gentlemen, some for the dames such as Plato. Add medias Electra dim eater, but all of them sensible everyday names. But I tell you, a cut needs a name that's particulary a name that's peculiar and more dignified else. How can he keep up his tail perpendicular or spread out his whiskers or cherish his pride of names of this kind? I can give you a quorum such as monk construct quack so cork a pot such as bomb ballerina or else jelly Lord names that never belong to more than one cut. But above and beyond, there's still one name left over, and that is the name that you will never guess. The name that no human research can discover, but the cat himself knows and will never confess. When you notice a cat in profound meditation, the reason I tell you is the same. His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation of the thought of the thought of the thought of his name, his ineffable, affable and on ineffable, deep and inscrutable singular name.