The naming of cats is a difficult matter. It isn't just one of your holiday games. You may think at first I'm mad as a hatter. When I tell you a cat must have three different names.

I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

Every nation, every race, has not only its own creative, but its own critical turn of mind; and is even more oblivious of the shortcomings and limitations of its critical habits than of those of its creative genius.

Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair-

So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore.

Cats must have three names-an everyday name, such as Peter; a more particular, dignified name, such as Quaxo, Bombalurina, or Jellylorum; and, thirdly, the name the cat thinks up for himself, his deep and inscrutable singular Name.

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.