[Sca-cooks] Re: [Sca-cooks]OT-The One True Tigger

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

> True, but the bastardization of his work by "Uncle Walt", a man who
> appears to have been pretty nasty, but was still beloved of probably
> billions of children over the decades, is probably _exactly_ what a man
> like Milne deserved. P.G. Wodehouse, on the other hand, besides being
> brilliant in an offhanded, careless sort of way, was also one of the
> kinder authors of the twentieth century, and did not deserve what he got
> at Milne's hands.

Yes, but people are still reading Wodehouse, and probably more of them
than are reading Milne...

-- Jadwiga, who was shocked to realize that a) many of her schoolmates had
never heard, "Here comes Winnie the Pooh, bump bump bump downstairs on the
back of his head", and further shocked to discover older colleagues who
didn't know Milne wrote poetry (and were profoundly disturbed by James
James Morrison Morrison and his missing mother).

-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa
jenne at fiedlerfamily.net OR jenne at tulgey.browser.net OR jahb at lehigh.edu
"Are you finished? If you're finished, you'll have to put down the spoon."