Are you blind when you're born? Can you see in the dark?
Can you look at a king? Would you sit on his throne?
Can you say of your bite that it's worse than your bark?
Are you cock of the walk when you're walking alone?
Because Jellicles are and Jellicles do
Jellicles do and Jellicles would
Jellicles would and Jellicles can
Jellicles can and Jellicles do
When you fall on your head, do you land on your feet?
Are you tense when you sense there's a storm in the air?
Can you find your way blind when you're lost in the street?
Do you know how to go to the Heaviside Layer?
Because Jellicles can and Jellicles do
Jellicles do and Jellicles can
Jellicles can and Jellicles do
Jellicles do and Jellicles can
Jellicles can and Jellicles do
Can you ride on a broomstick to places far distant?
Familiar with candle, with book and with bell?
Will you be there at the end, like at the beginning?
Are you so blessed that you will never reach hell?
Jellicle Cats are queen of the nights
Singing at astronomical heights
Handling pieces from the Messiah
Hallelujah, angelical choir
- Famous Jellicle song
Practical cats, dramatical cats
Pragmatical cats, fanatical cats
Oratorical cats, delphioracle cats
Skeptical cats, dispeptical cats
Romantical cats, pedantical cats
Critical cats, parasitical cats
Allegorical cats, metaphorical cats
Statistical cats and mystical cats
Political cats, hypocritical cats
Clerical cats, hysterical cats
Cynical cats, rabbinical cats
- Jellicle poem describing some of the qualities of the race
Jellicles - sometimes Jellicle Cats - are a race of cat-people, distantly related to the Great Skull-Tigers. They are nimble, active, generally beautiful and very musical. They are also mostly very adept magic users.
Their equivalent of heaven is the Heaviside Layer, where righteous felines go to become angels. They have no hell in their religion - those who do not reach the Heaviside Layer remain as ghosts.
They are well known for riding bewitched broomsticks when they need to travel, as well as being able to detect changes in the weather.
Comments (5)
M J Ritchie said
at 5:16 am on Aug 14, 2006
This was me - sorry, hadn't signed in!
anacharis said
at 6:47 am on Aug 14, 2006
[T.S. Eliot] I have a gumbie cat in mind
Her name is Jennyanydots
Her Coat is of the tabby kind
With Tiger stripes and Leopard Spots
[/T.S. Eliot]
Nice.
M J Ritchie said
at 7:28 am on Aug 14, 2006
Essentially, yes.
anacharis said
at 7:31 am on Aug 14, 2006
For the record, I *love* Old Possum's book of practical cats- haven't seen the musical, though. Ah, well. Still, wish I'd thought to do something like this. As I said before, Nice.
M J Ritchie said
at 10:25 am on Aug 14, 2006
The musical is fantastic - saw it in London a few months before it closed. Anyway, I was listening to the song yesterday and thought, "That's a pre-made race." I had to edit a couple of lyrics but it's mostly as it was.
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