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T.S. Eliot

“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.”

T.S. Eliot, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot
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