Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and again in the 1974 version. The ways in which humans deal with death are also at the focus of this play, as are the futility and nihilism some encounter when confronted with imminent mortality. Similar ideas are found in Dylan Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night", which Williams excerpted and added as an epigraph to his 1974 version. These lines are appropriate, as Thomas wrote the poem to his own dying father. Additionally, in one of his many drafts, in a footnote on Big Daddy's action in the third act, Williams deems "Cat on a Hot
Fais do-do Fais do-do A fais do-do is a Cajun dance party, originating before World War II. According to Mark Humphrey, the parties were named for "the gentle command ('go to sleep') young mothers offered bawling infants." He quotes early Cajun musician Edwin Duhon of the Hackberry Ramblers: "Do-do" itself is a shortening of the French verb "dormir" (to sleep), used primarily in speaking to small children. The phrase is comparable to the American English "beddy-bye", and is embodied in an old French lullaby, a song sung to children when putting them down for the night. Its existence in Cajun culture as