# Den bästa kattboken
Author: Christina

Tycker jag nog fortfarande är [poeten TS Eliots](http://www.spectrum.uni-bielefeld.de/Classes/Summer97/SemGS/WebLex/OldPossum "http://www.spectrum.uni-bielefeld.de/Classes/Summer97/SemGS/WebLex/OldPossum") 'Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Den här dikten gick jag och rabblade för mig själv på 60-talet, alltså långt innan man gjorde musical på boken. Den är ju så allmän egendom så nog får man klistra in den i sin helhet? Måste läses halvmumlande och halvhögt........

_The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,  
__   It isn't just one of your holiday games;  
__ You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter  
__ When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.  
__ First of all, there's the name that the family use daily,  
__   Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James,  
__ Such as Victor or Jonathan, or George or Bill Bailey -  
__   All of them sensible everyday names.  
__ There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter,  
__   Some for the gentlemen, some for the dames:  
__ Such as Plato, Admetus, Electra, Demeter -  
__   But all of them sensible everyday names.  
__ But I tell you, a cat needs a name that's particular,  
__   A name that's peculiar, and more dignified,  
__ Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular,  
__   Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride?  
__ Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum,  
__   Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat,  
__ Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum -  
__   Names that never belong to more than one cat.  
__ But above and beyond there's still one name left over,  
__   And that is the name that you never will guess;  
__ The name that no human research can discover -  
__   But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess.  
__ When you notice a cat in profound meditation,  
__   The reason, I tell you, is always the same:  
__ His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation  
__   Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:  
__     His ineffable effable  
__     Effanineffable  
__ Deep and inscrutable singular Name._

## Comment 1
Author: Pia

Åh jag håller med, den är fin! Och har så underfundiga teckningar också:)