Pigs in Blankets

[steepholm]

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.

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[sovay]

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.”

Aaagh.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Well, quite.

[sovay]

Do you have any idea where, as a misquotation, it originated? I threw it into Google Books and got a lot of really sticky-looking inspirational nonfiction.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

I don't know. Once in circulation, these things tend to misbeget each other...

[sovay]

Once in circulation, these things tend to misbeget each other...

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.

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

I made the mistake of looking at those. Tonstant Weader fwowed up.

[sovay]

Tonstant Weader fwowed up.

I'm trying to figure out where these things come from! Do people just confuse The Tao of Pooh with verbatim Milne?

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

It's strange, isn't it? That blog in particular is written by someone who professes a profound love of the books, and writes as if she knows them well, yet she comes out with all that tosh! And none of her equally enthusiastic commenters picks her up on it (unless they're just sparing her feelings).

I haven't read The Tao of Pooh, but I hope it's better than that.

[sovay]

That blog in particular is written by someone who professes a profound love of the books, and writes as if she knows them well, yet she comes out with all that tosh!

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 rushthatspeaks' mind in 2011.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

My gaze is fixed on Disney. Some of those quotations have just Disney's timbre and hokiness-quotient. Here's one of them, in fact, turning up in a Disney cartoon.

[sovay]

Here's one of them, in fact, turning up in a Disney cartoon.

Yes, that makes sense. I've never seen any of the cartoons myself.

[vschanoes.livejournal.com]

Yes, I can hear the Disney narrator in my head saying that; it sounds like Disney.

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

This is why Disney Pooh has never had any place in my house. I am always tempted to spell it without the H. (Disney Poo, I mean, not 'ouse.) And I don't dare think what they must have made of Eeyore.