The Naming of Cats can discover—but THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess. In "Cats", "The Naming of Cats" is the second song of the musical. The Naming of Cats is a slow, eerie song which breaks the fourth wall, acknowledging the audience and explaining to them how cats are given their names, all through unison, quietly whispering, but also fiercely hissing, in rhythmic dialogue from the full company. In the 1976 movie "Logan's Run" actor Peter Ustinov recites a shortened version of the poem. The Naming of Cats "The Naming of Cats" is a poem in T. S. Eliot's poetry book "Old
The King of the Cats first cursing all mice, killing a dozen of them in shame, followed by the cats who should have kept the mice in check; in retaliation, the king of the cats, Irusan son of Arusan hunts Senchán down intending to kill him, but is in turn killed by St Kieran. This tale was reworked by Lady Jane Wilde as "Seanchan the Bard and the King of the Cats", published in her 1866 book "Ancient Legends of Ireland", and included in W. B. Yeats' 1892 book "Irish Fairy Tales". The second was retold as "When the King of the Cats Came to