Memories of "Cats"
Several years ago, during a routine game of Trivial Pursuit, I was asked who had written the book on which the musical "Cats" is based. I reached for the dice to roll again before I finished saying the words "T. S. Eliot," in a voice that telegraphed the sentiment "Duh." My fellow-gamers were aghast. None of them had an inkling that the author of "The Waste Land" had also penned, as a gift to his godchildren,…