Pigs in Blankets
May. 29th, 2016 10:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I've occasionally posted dubious quotations here before. This one may be entirely genuine, but I don't recognise it, and to me it feels considerably too saccharine.
So, all across the internet you will find the following attributed to A. A. Milne: “Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.”
Is that for real? I could check by rereading the books, but if any of you recognise the quotation from either of them, I'd be pleased to know.
So, all across the internet you will find the following attributed to A. A. Milne: “Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.”
Is that for real? I could check by rereading the books, but if any of you recognise the quotation from either of them, I'd be pleased to know.
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Date: 2016-05-29 10:18 pm (UTC)Nine
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Date: 2016-05-29 10:27 pm (UTC)(I think Pooh's Very Little Brain is the only bodily metaphor used about any of the characters, but haven't read them recently.)
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Date: 2016-05-29 10:33 pm (UTC)Nine
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Date: 2016-05-29 10:39 pm (UTC)Aaagh.
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Date: 2016-05-29 11:03 pm (UTC)I was just in the process of putting together an edit to my comment: it looks like there's more of them. The exchange with Piglet about breakfast is real. Two others—the corner of the Forest and "What about lunch?"—are rearrangements of lines from The House at Pooh Corner. It is true that I haven't checked all of the rest, but I am very, very skeptical about the remainder of the Milne quotations on that page.
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Date: 2016-05-30 12:42 am (UTC)I'm trying to figure out where these things come from! Do people just confuse The Tao of Pooh with verbatim Milne?
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Date: 2016-05-30 05:19 am (UTC)I haven't read The Tao of Pooh, but I hope it's better than that.
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Date: 2016-05-30 05:26 am (UTC)I know! It's one of the reasons I'm trying to figure out what she's so lovingly cited, because it isn't for the most part the actual books!
I haven't read The Tao of Pooh, but I hope it's better than that.
That's fair. It had an inspirational sound and I am slightly biased against Benjamin Hoff for his work on the edition of Opal Whiteley that blew
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Date: 2016-05-30 05:43 am (UTC)Yes, that makes sense. I've never seen any of the cartoons myself.
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