6820 = 22 x 5 x 11 x 31
A name that’s peculiar, and more dignified,
6821 = 19 × 359
Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular,
6822 = 2 x 32 x 379
Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride?
6823
Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum,
6824 = 23 × 853
Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat,
6825
Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum–
6826 = 2 x 3413
Names that never belong to more than one cat.
6827
But above and beyond there’s still one name left over,
6828 = 22 × 3 × 569
And that is the name that you never will guess;
6829
The name that no human research can discover–
6830 = 2 x 5 x 683
But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess.
6831
When you notice a cat in profound meditation,
6832 = 24 × 7 × 61
The reason, I tell you, is always the same:
6833, prime
His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation
6834 = 2 × 3 × 17 × 67
Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:
6835 = 5 x 1367
His ineffable effable
6836 = 22 × 1709
Effanineffable
6837 = 3 x 43 x 53
Deep and inscrutable singular name.
6838
(We’re done with this one, so it’s somebody else’s turn. But for the record, I always liked Eliot’s, “Effanineffable.” I’m guessing that it was wordplay and a way to get the f-bomb past parents.
As an aside, I had the chance to buy a first British edition of Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats a few years ago. Still kicking myself that I didn’t take it.
Okay, who’s next?)
6839 = 7 x 977
Picture yourself in a boat on a river