Gus: The Theatre Cat - Cultural References

Cultural References

In Logan's Run (1976 film) Logan and Jessica meet an old man in the Senate Chamber during their search for Sanctuary. The old man has many cats and references The Naming of Cats, explaining that each cat has three names: one common, one unique, and one that only the cat knows. He refers to one cat in particular: Gus, short for Asparagus.

The description in the original poem about Gus playing a "Tiger... which an Indian Colonel pursued down a drain" is a reference to the short story The Adventure of the Empty House by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In the story Colonel Sebastian Moran, chief underling of the infamous Professor Moriarty, is said to have pursued a man-eating tiger down a drain during his military service in India, before his criminal career.

T. S. Eliot
Early poems
  • The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
  • Portrait of a Lady
  • "Preludes"
  • "Whispers of Immortality"
  • Gerontion
  • The Waste Land
  • The Hollow Men
  • Ash Wednesday
  • Ariel Poems
  • The Journey of the Magi
Later poems
  • Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
  • "Bustopher Jones"
  • "Gus: The Theatre Cat"
  • "Growltiger's Last Stand"
  • Burnt Norton
  • East Coker
  • The Dry Salvages
  • Little Gidding
  • Four Quartets
Plays
  • Sweeney Agonistes
  • The Rock
  • Murder in the Cathedral
  • The Family Reunion
  • The Cocktail Party
  • The Confidential Clerk
  • The Elder Statesman
Prose
  • Selected Essays, 1917-1932
  • "Hamlet and His Problems"
  • "Tradition and the Individual Talent"
  • The Sacred Wood
  • "The Frontiers of Criticism"
People
  • E. Martin Browne
  • Eliot family
  • Valerie Eliot
  • Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot
  • Ezra Pound
  • Jean Jules Verdenal
  • William Butler Yeats
Publishing
  • The Criterion
  • Faber and Faber

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