#Jellicles are "Cats" the same way Ghosts are 'People' | @goFandom

I don't want to sound like I ever thought 'the actors performing in CATS were actual cat-creatures'; but--after seeing the HBOMAX-'broadcast' of the movie-musical, I found myself asking 'Why didn't they--with all the CGI-technology available today--make the cats more like "actual cats" rather than "dancers in tights wearing cat-hats"?'

What I show here is 'the group of words' that couch "that word" (below hyperlinked to ) into your vocabulary ... deeper meanings that 'firm the foundations' upon which our lexicon stands ...

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The word “Jellicles” is either a corruption of "|Dear Little" or a diminutive of |Jellylorum (the name of T.S. Eliot's own cat). The #Jellicle cats were the feline counterpart to Eliot's #Pollicle dog (a diminutive of |Polly, the name of Eliot's first-wife's dog ... if not 'a corruption of "Poor Little"'). #JellicleCats #JellicleBall #JellicleMoon #JellicleChoice #JellicleLife #JellicleCat

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The reason why they don't make the cats into more-realistic cats? Quite simply because that's not what they are (in the fictional universe). They exist in the same state-of-being as Santa Claus---i.e. based on 'actual beings' (Santa, on the gift-giving Saint Nicholas; Jellicles, on cats that Eliot's god-children had seen), but are given characteristics that real things can't have (the power to visit every 'good child's home' in one night; teletransportation-etc.