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Cat, by Sinclair Lewis, ends with the cat praying to its cat-god: Its very purr is of piety
And thanks to the Feline Giver.
And this is how it prays:
"Ancient of days
With whiskers torrendous,
Hark to our praise,
Lick and defend us.
Lo, how we bring to Thee
Sweet breasts of mouses;
Hark how we sing to Thee,
Filling all houses
With ardent miaouses
Until it arouses
All mankind to battery.
Thou with golden claws,
Thou of silver claws,
Thy tail is the comets' cause,
King of all cattery!"http://angelfire.com/biz4/veronispoofs/catrelated.html; emph. added
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You have to have a poetic license to use it. And that poem does not elevate my opinion of Sinclair Lewis.
Unless he was putting it in the mouth of Babbitt.
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That must be catterel because doggerel doesn't fit in this context.
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well googled? ten people who can't spell torrential??
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that poem does not elevate my opinion of Sinclair Lewis.
dr. bill, would you make allowance for the purrported fact that he had chosen a singularly unappealing subject (cats) upon which to muse?
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he had chosen a singularly unappealing subject (cats) upon which to muse?
And Keiva thereby paints a target on himself...
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Don't expect me to share in any general praise of kennels good bad or indifferent ... it is costing me some NZ$4,500 to bring my dog from Zild to Britain. And a lot of that is being charged by kennels owners. 
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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Dear CK: Commiseration on cost, commendation on caring so much.
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Bill, me care? Me, the one who's been staring longingly in gunsmiths' windows at the 50p bullet which would reduce my costs so much? Huh! 
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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