March 31, 2006
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VISUALLY APPALLING
Remember the scene in Disney's The Sword in the Stone where Merlin does some kind of hocus-pocus (and do you know where that phrase comes from?) and all his books dance around and pack themselves in his valise? Well, if I do that, do you suppose I can get the books in this chaos I'm pleased to call my study to organize themselves? Probably not; my books are far too staid for those sorts of shenanigans (hey, that's an Irish word!). Can you imagine Calvin's Commentaries doing that little jig thing? Or Josephus? Or Sir Walter Scott's Waverlies? I think not. Mine would shuffle along like those magicians in The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins (one of Seuss's greatest books, by the way, and one of the very few he wrote in prose rather than rhyme. Bartholomew and the Oobleck is even better). Um, I'm not very coherent tonight. But hey, even my little sister blogs more than I do now, so I had to post something.
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Ooh, I got mention from The Hill!
I am enjoying the mental image of your books shuffling along and muttering like Seuss's magicians, and wondering how each of my books would comport itself. Thankfully you said that Bartholomew Cubbins was only one of Seuss's greatest books, because his pinnacle of achievement has to be The Sneetches and Other Stories! "One day making tracks in the Prairie of Prax..."
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