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January 3, 1892



J. R. R. Tolkien, is not well known for his cat digressions, but his poem, "Cat," is quotable, and so I do, in part:

The fat cat on the mat
may seem to dream
of nice mice or cream;
but he free, maybe
walks...where...
his kin...feasted on beasts
and tender men.

Hope I haven't ruined the Anglo Saxon rhythms with my excisions. We see a similar shifting in scale to what occurs with the characters in his more famous writing. Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892, and grew up to be an Anglo Saxon scholar. 

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