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Tom Ronca - 2006-11-22 13:16:26
"It's blustery, cold, overcast, and gloomy..."
I'm jealous. L.A. just got through its (hopefully) last bout of high 80 degree temps last week, and it's lows are only now dipping into the 40's. I miss winter. I am the Anti-Persephone...
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Tom Ronca - 2006-11-22 14:53:42
Had to look up the quote, as I have neither seen nor read that particular play. "cakes and ale..."; well, one would hope so...
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Greg - 2006-11-22 19:23:34
I actually went out today and looked for the animated feature Winnie The Pooh: Blustery Day. It's one of my favorites of all time--I'm a big AA Milne fan anyway. Blustery Day though... pure, sweet brilliance. But there will be more blustery days and eventually I'll find a copy.
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Tom Ronca - 2006-11-22 19:59:29
The A.A. Milne books are wonderful (and are really, I think, as much intended as an adult appreciation of childhood as they are children's stories alone). The English seem to have mastered the particular blend of melancholy and mirth necessary to pull this hat-trick off, and if you like the Pooh books, then you should by all means read Kenneth Grahame's "The Wind in the Willows", which may be the best children's novel I've had the pleasure to read. While there have many movie adaptations of the tales collected in "Willows", none, to my reckoning, have done it justice.
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Greg - 2006-11-22 20:21:28
Oh man, The Wind in the Willows--I read that for the first time in my early 20s and was still moved. I do remember not being moved at all by a film adaptation. It could definitely be an English thing. That applies to pop music also, from some of the psychedelic folk stuff of the 60s and 70s through... well, The Smiths come to mind.
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iwombat - 2006-11-22 20:25:50
another, newer entry into "childrens" books for adults that's really sweet is Rushdie's "Haroun and the sea of stories"
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Tom G. - 2006-11-23 00:35:17
"Willows" definitely rules but when you pick up a copy of it, make sure that the chapter entitled "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" is included. I saw a few editions at a B&N or Borders recently that had that chapter excluded. To me it is the heart and soul of the book and the part that elevates the whole thing to a special level.
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Greg - 2006-11-23 08:15:19
Wombat: I had no idea that Salman Rushdie wrote childrens' stories--or did he just compile them? I'm going to look for the book. I'm going to pick up a copy of WitW also. And since I'm about--To IHoP management, staffers, and visitors--Have a great Thanksgiving. May you all have as much to be thankful for this year as I do, or more... and more of the same in the coming year.
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