a.a.milne..........dodie smith.......two names lost in the crowd of millions of authors......
let me say, winnie-the-pooh. the hundred and one dalmations. definitely more familiar.
well those are the authors who let superbrand disney take over.and not completely for a very good reason.
all we know of pooh is a very fat, very yellow, very sweet and very silly little bear. that is okay. because there are pictures of pooh in the books ( beautiful pictures drawn by the loving hand of e. h. shepard, not large 3d images). but they ANIMATED THE HEFFALUMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that is monstrous madness, the absolute limit to cruelty (to imagination) and insensitivity. once the heffalump is created and galumphing about in our tv sets like a elephantish-hoggish little mishap, the magic just about disappears. and where is the timeless humour :
When I first heard his name, I said, just as you are going to say, "But I thought he was a boy?" "So did I," said Christopher Robin.
"Then you can't call him Winnie?"
"I don't."
"But you said---"
"He's Winnie-ther-Pooh. Don't you know what 'ther' means?"
"Ah, yes, now I do," I said quickly;
and I hope you do too, because it is all the explanation you are going to get. ""
and what about dodie smith??? did you know that perdita wasn't pongo's wife????????
she was a foster mother whom the dearlies adopted to take care of Missis Pongo's fifteen kids.
so many delicious details are left out in the movies (as in all movies). but in other cases people watch the movie's and read the books too (at least some people do). but the books have been wholly forgotten.
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'Here we will found a Dynasty of dalmations,"said Mr Dearly.
Missis was insulted. She thought the word meant a nasty din. But Pongo explained that it meant a family that goes on and on.
Mr Dearly added," And we'd better start a Dynasty of Dearlys, to look after the Dynasty of Dalmations,". And Mrs Dearly quite agreed.
disney did away with everything. and so made it humungously popular. yippee.
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