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- Subject: Re: "Cats" lyrics
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.232648.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
- From: bcimmet@eagle.wesleyan.edu
- Date: 20 Dec 92 23:26:48 EST
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- In article <1992Dec20.235935.19177@news.cs.brandeis.edu>, st923058@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Jessica Raine) writes:
- >
- > Lyrics (taken from T.H. White's poem, 'Old Deuteronomy'):
- > "Well, of all things! Can it be? Really?
- > "No! Yes! Ho! Hi! Oh, my eye! [a common exclamation in Victorian
- > England, roughly analagous to "No Way!"]
- > "My mind may be wandering,"...etc.
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- > Jessica Raine | st923058@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
-
- > "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes."--The Bard
- > "I once was a Pirate as sailed the 'igh Seas
- > "But now I'm retired as a Com-missionaire"--"Cat Morgan Introduces Himself,
- > ", a fantastic Cat poem from T.H. White's "Old Possum's Book Of Practical
- > Cats" which unfortunately did not make it into the stage play
-
- Well, thank you for the response... I still think it sounds like "No, yes,
- Ohio! My eye..." but that's just for my silly sense of humor. Um, I don't know
- how to say this, but I've never read T.H. White's "Old Possum's Book of
- Practical Cats." When I was in 11th grade, however, I did a research paper on
- T.S. Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats." Hm, I wonder, could these
- be the same book?
- Sorry to be sarcastic... Anyway, it's T.S. Eliot, not T.H. White. But
- that's okay. I thought the lyrics were about Ohio. Ha ha ha.
-
- - Brian
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