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- From: dewitt@wpi.WPI.EDU (Jeffrey Dewitt Waldin)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.theatre
- Subject: Re: "Cats" lyrics
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 03:31:30 GMT
- Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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- References: <1992Dec18.115639.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu> <1992Dec20.235935.19177@news.cs.brandeis.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec20.235935.19177@news.cs.brandeis.edu> st923058@pip.cc.brandeis.edu 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.
- > Did not see London production--saw it in a very nice little production
- >in Boston. The Boston cast said "No! Yes!"
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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
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- Minor point that the poems are by T.S. Eliot (I have the book)
- T.H. White is "The Once and Future King" on which "Camelot" was based.
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