
<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 26pt; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; color: rgb(84, 130, 53); background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The Naming Of Cats </span></b><div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(60, 96, 91); background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">by T. S. Eliot</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: white;">The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">It isn't just one of your holiday games;</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">First of all, there's the name that the family use daily,</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James,</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Such as Victor or Jonathan, George or Bill Bailey--</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">All of them sensible everyday names.</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter,</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Some for the gentlemen, some for the dames:</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Such as Plato, Admetus, Electra, Demeter--</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">But all of them sensible everyday names.</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">But I tell you, a cat needs a name that's particular,</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">A name that's peculiar, and more dignified,</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular,</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride?</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum,</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat,</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum-</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Names that never belong to more than one cat.</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">But above and beyond there's still one name left over,</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">And that is the name that you never will guess;</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The name that no human research can discover--</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess.</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">When you notice a cat in profound meditation,</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The reason, I tell you, is always the same:</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">His ineffable effable</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Effanineffable</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Deep and inscrutable singular Name.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><br></div>—————————————————<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/">http://www.moscowcares.com/</a></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”</div><div>- Roy E. Stolworthy</div><div></div></div></div></div></body></html>