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  • 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(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
      Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats,'The Naming of Cats'.

  • Then, with that faint fleeting smile playing about his lips, he faced the firing squad; erect and motionless, proud and disdainful,Walter Mitty, the undefeated, inscrutable to the last.

    -James Grover Thurber
      'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty', in the NewYorker,18 Mar.

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