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23 octobre 2021
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Dídac Llorens, « We Call Him Just Gus », T. S. Eliot and drama, ID : 10.58079/o5js
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In a famous photograph, T. S. Eliot stands outside the back door of the Cambridge Theatre in London (where the first production of The Elder Statesman was running in 1958), fondly looking down at a passing cat. It would seem to illustrate one of the most memorable poems of his Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939): "Gus: The Theatre Cat," which opens with the line "Gus is the cat at the theatre door". Gus (Asparagus) is an ageing cat. Old Deuteronomy, the feline Methuselah, "was famou...