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Heaviside layer
[′hev·ē‚sīd ‚lā·ər] (geophysics)
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The cats all get together once a year to send one cat up to the heaviside layer, heaven, to be given a new life, as cats have nine lives.
It tells the story of a tribe of cats called the Jellicles and the night they make what is known as 'the Jellicle choice', where they decide which cat will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new life.
The narrative sees the Jellicle cats gather in a scrapyard for their annual ball, where one lucky puss is chosen by leader of the pack Old Deuteronomy (here played by a wise and furry Nicholas Pound) to ascend to the Heaviside layer to be reborn.
Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia") via a stair-climbing ritual that, for theater geeks, calls to mind Grizabella ascending on a tire to the Heaviside Layer in Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Cats.
Old Deuteronomy, their wise and benevolent leader, announces which of them will go up to The Heaviside Layer and be reborn into a whole new life.
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