User blog:Ailurafey/Thoughts on the Heaviside Layer

There is much speculation on the nature of the Heaviside Layer, a setting mentioned frequently by the Jellicle Cats. Cats haters say it is a place of ritual sacrifice, and that the Jellicles wish for death. Others say that the alleyways of the Jellicle’s London are a kind of Purgatory, and that the Heaviside Layer is the path to the real world, life on Earth. I think not.

There is much context suggesting that the alleys are not purgatory for the cats, as some of the cats seem to have owners they like to bother. Like Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer. It is unlikely that