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Re: Dr. Seuss


and here i thought the electric company was really a brainwashing scam; it 
seemed like everybody watched it, but nobody could remember what it was 
like.  i sit corrected.

melancholy isn't so bad.  i think it makes morrissey happy.


melanie


>From: "Peter T. Chattaway" <petert at interchange_ubc.ca>
>Reply-To: "Peter T. Chattaway" <petert at interchange_ubc.ca>
>CC: OTR <over-the-rhine at actwin_com>
>Subject: Re: Dr. Seuss
>Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 11:58:43 -0700 (PDT)
>
> > Ever since I was little, my favorite has always been "The Lorax". It's
> > the only Dr. Seuss book that's sad, and I therefore blame it for my
> > lifelong obsession with melancholy stories.  :)
>
>Hmmmm ... I've always kind of had a thing for melancholy too, but I don't
>know what I would trace it to.
>
>The first thing that comes to mind is an old _Electric Company_ vignette
>in which a woman sings, "It always rains where I go..."  She's standing
>outside a cafe or restaurant, and then her date (I *think* it was Morgan
>Freeman) shows up, and they go inside.  As they're sitting down, he asks
>for a menu, and then they hear a thunderclap, and the woman reaches for
>her umbrella, and as it begins to rain, just over the woman's seat and
>nowhere else, her date asks if one of the menus could be waterproof.
>
>Plus, when I used to play in the bathtub, I tended to sing 'Row, Row, Row
>Your Boat' with the slightly altered lyrics, "Merrily, merrily, merrily,
>merrily, life goes down the drain."  I mean, that was where I saw the
>water going, right?  :)  My parents had to correct me and tell me that
>life "is but a dream" -- but in light of what _The Matrix_ has shown us,
>I'm not sure that that's a more optimistic outlook.  :)
>
>--- Peter T. Chattaway --------------------------- peter at chattaway_com ---
>  "I detected one misprint, but to torture you I will not tell you where."
>       Winston Churchill to T.E. Lawrence, re Seven Pillars of Wisdom
>
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