by Eliot · Cluster: Self-Knowledge · Immortality · Self-Reliance
Abstract
Index-of-first-lines fragment (G–I), listing Practical Cats openings and ‘Here I am, an old man in a dry month’ (Gerontion), ‘In my beginning is my end’ (Four Quartets) and the Fable’s opening line.
Connections
Motifs: Book Reading, Animals Themes & Concepts: Memory and Time, Mortality
Testo integrale / Full text
Growltiger was a Bravo Cat, who travelled on a barge 1
Gus is the Cat at the Theatre Door 1
Here I am, an old man in a dry month 1
I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river 1
I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots 1
I once was a Pirate what sailed the ’igh seas 1
If space and time, as sages say 1
If Time and Space, as Sages say 1
Ils ont vu les Pays-Bas, ils rentrent à Terre Haute 1
In England, long before that royal Mormon 1
In my beginning is my end. In succession 1
‘Issues from the hand of God, the simple soul’ 1
Jellicle Cats are black and white 1