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    Quote Originally Posted by Edwina's Secretary View Post
    Every time I look at photos of Barney I think of the cat in the musical Cats...I do not know the name...the one who gets to go to Cat Heaven?

    Perhaps that should be his theme song....precious boy...
    I think that was Grizabella - she's the one who sang that beautiful song Memories.

    EDIT: And Barney will have wonderful memories once he crosses the Bridge; and thanks to EmeraldGreen, we will have wonderful memories of Barney.
    Last edited by Grace; 12-30-2008 at 06:40 PM.

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    O Lara!!! I know how hard this must be for you right now!! We have seen four cats go to the Bridge since last December, and it was not easy. The way Barney is now, reminds me of little Molly Meu. She was a real trooper. But when she started having trouble walking any length and the ascitis was increasing, making her breathing difficult, it was time.... You sound like you have a good plan. Can you let us know what time you might be bringing Barney to the vet on Friday. I would like to put a candle out on the porch for him....Do not worry about what the vet might think about you, you do what is right for Barney... Prayers for comfort at this time for both Barney and you(and some HUGS, too!!!)...Sandra

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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizabella
    Grizabella is the "Glamour Cat" in the musical production Cats. She does not appear in T. S. Eliot's work Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, but she is a prominent character in the stageplay. It appears that she is the feline version of the woman mentioned in T.S. Eliot's poem "Rhapsody on a Windy Night".

    “Regard that woman (Remark the Cat)
    Who hesitates toward you in the light of the door
    Which opens on her like a grin.
    You see the border of her dress (You see the border of her coat)
    Is torn and stained with sand,
    And you see the corner of her eye
    Twists like a crooked pin.”

    The character of Grizabella featured in an unpublished poem that T.S. Eliot wrote for his godchildren, intending to include it in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. However, as his widow, Valerie Eliot pointed out, he thought it was too "sad for children" and so didn't include it in the finished work. Valerie Eliot came to the 1980 Sydmonton Festival concert where Andrew Lloyd Webber premiered some of his settings of the Old Possum poems, and gave him the paper with the fragment of Grizabella written on it. From there Lloyd Webber and director Trevor Nunn incorporated the Grizabella poem as a main strand of the plot of the show.

    Grizabella is, at the time of her appearance, a very old cat, withered by her age to the point that she no longer resembles the proud, carefree, flamboyant dancer of her youth. Her fellow Jellicles are quite jealous of Grizabella and hence sadistically pleased to see her in a dishevelled condition.

    Possibly because of this jealousy, it is Grizabella whom Old Deuteronomy consigns to the Heaviside Layer to be reborn. During her change, Grizabella sings the song "Memory", which has been thought of by audiences as a very emotionally touching, profound, and even mysterious composition. It has been recorded by over 150 different artists, including Barry Manilow, Michael Crawford, and Barbra Streisand.

    Another interpretation of Grizabella's past is that she left the Jellicle tribe to explore the outside world ("Grizabella the Glamour Cat"), despite knowing that she would never be allowed back in. The other cats shun her for leaving them, despite that she wants to be with them again. After several attempts to gain their acceptance, Grizabella's emotional appeal (represented by "Memory") is accepted; seeing how much that she suffered, she is chosen to be reborn.

    The name Grizabella is probably derived from "grizzle" which means either "grey" or "disheveled", and "belle" which means "beauty". Hence "Grizabella"; "The grey beauty" or "the disheveled beauty".


    Daylight
    See the dew on the sunflower
    And a rose that is fading
    Roses whither away
    Like the sunflower
    I yearn to turn my face to the dawn
    I am waiting for the day . . .

    Midnight
    Not a sound from the pavement
    Has the moon lost her memory?
    She is smiling alone
    In the lamplight
    The withered leaves collect at my feet
    And the wind begins to moan

    Memory
    All alone in the moonlight
    I can smile at the old days
    I was beautiful then
    I remember the time I knew what happiness was
    Let the memory live again

    Every streetlamp
    Seems to beat a fatalistic warning
    Someone mutters
    And the streetlamp gutters
    And soon it will be morning

    Daylight
    I must wait for the sunrise
    I must think of a new life
    And I musn't give in
    When the dawn comes
    Tonight will be a memory too
    And a new day will begin

    Burnt out ends of smoky days
    The stale cold smell of morning
    The streetlamp dies, another night is over
    Another day is dawning

    Touch me
    It's so easy to leave me
    All alone with the memory
    Of my days in the sun
    If you touch me
    You'll understand what happiness is

    Look
    A new day has begun
    LES

    Barney, I love you. I hope hope hope there is a heaven, a 'heaviside layer'.

    I hope hope hope your day is new and bright, and you are healthy and free.

    You were loved, Barney, and you loved.

    Bless your meowmy Lara, bless Angela, and bless you darling boy.




    "Do or do not. There is no try." -- Yoda

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