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googling "jellicle cats" and "t. s. eliot" yields the phrase
"pollicle dogs and jellicle cats"; continuing the search with this phrase gives:
A defining moment in the series is when Eliot introduces the feline creatures of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats to the three-year-old Tom. He writes: "I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat. My Cat is a Lilliecat Hubvously. What a lilliecat it is. There never was such a Lilliecat. Its Name is JELLYORUM and its one Idea is to be Usefull!! For Instance It Straightens The Pictures - It Does The Grates - Looks Into the Larder To See What's Needed - And Into The Dustbin To See That Nothing's Wasted - And Yet Is So Lillie And Small That It Can Sit On my Ear (Of course I had to draw my Ear rather Bigger than it is to get the Liilicat onto it)."
Just before Tom's fourth birthday, Eliot sends him a verse "Invitation to All Pollicle Dogs & Jellicle Cats To Come To The Birthday Of Thomas Faber", beginning: "Pollicle Dogs and Jellicle Cats!/ Come from your Kennels & Houses & Flats…" (this hitherto unpublished poem was incorporated into the lyrics of the Prologue of Andrew Lloyd-Webber and Trevor Nunn's critically acclaimed musical Cats.
stating that jellicle cats are such and so are probably just as fanciful.
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Jellicle Cats Father Steve 01/17/06 06:19 AM Re: Jellicle Cats TEd Remington 01/17/06 10:27 AM Re: Jellicle Cats Buffalo Shrdlu 01/17/06 10:29 AM Re: Jellicle Cats sjmaxq 01/17/06 10:30 AM Re: Jellicle Cats Buffalo Shrdlu 01/17/06 10:32 AM Re: Jellicle Cats wsieber 01/17/06 02:49 PM Re: Jellicle Cats dalehileman 01/17/06 04:08 PM more google pedantry tsuwm 01/17/06 05:35 PM Re: more google pedantry dalehileman 01/17/06 06:00 PM Re: more google pedantry tsuwm 01/17/06 06:08 PM Re: more google pedantry tsuwm 01/17/06 06:16 PM Re: more google pedantry dalehileman 01/17/06 08:45 PM
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