Today

[sartorias]

First, meme from mamculuna: take a selfie right now, the way you are, and post it. I was so happy to put a face to a name, I thought, okay, I'll do that, frowzy hair, ice cream splashed t-shirt, and all.

Comments

[c_bibliophagist]

Actually, I really liked most Dr. Seuss -- except for a couple of the later and extremely didactic stories: The Lorax and The Butter Battle Book. (These had none of the charm or humor of The Sneetches or Horton Hears a Who, two of his other books with a serious subject.)

What I enjoyed about Dr. Seuss was his rhythmic and playful language, his tendency to make up his own words, and a bonkers sort of nonsense that I would also find in Lewis Carroll, neither of whom I would have described as "safe." (In my opinion, both authors have just a tinge of the nightmarish.)

As a child, I was not frightened of the book, The Cat In The Hat, though the cat himself did feature in a nightmare I had in fourth or fifth grade. I dreampt that he was chasing me through the snow and around our the outside of our house. What made it scary was that in the dream he was unthinking and totally irrational, and I knew there was no possibility of reasoning with him.

[sartorias]

Wow, an interesting dream. It really is the irrational that is kinda scary. My own fear was succinct, based on experience; it was only later that I cottoned to the incipient chaos as well as the imagination. But oh, the intense pleasure I got from "On Beyond Zebra!"