Friday, June 20, 2008

MAKE WAY FOR DUCKLINGS!


I used to love that book as a kid.** And last week, it's happened for reals.

thanks for sharing, Lina. too sweet.

**the Wiki review is cracking my shit up. "Poor characterization?"

Critics note that the "loosely plotted" story gives no true explanation for why Mr. Mallard leaves the island in the Charles River or why the Mallards did not simply stay on the lagoon island in the first place and avoid the bicyclists on the shore.


Yes, personally, I prefer your more gritty, naturalistic, three-dimensional duck stories. However, in a more deconstructionist reading, we see that in fact Mr. Mallard is merely a symbol of the war-torn country's existentialist anxieties; in fact, in an era of mass displacement, there IS no "true explanation" for one's actions, no way of guaranteeing one can forever evade the bicyclists, and thus we may understand Mr. Mallard's decision to leave the island as an absurdist expression of protest in a meaningless...okay I really need to stop that now.

5 comments:

antiprincess said...

how much do I love YOU?!
(but I don't think I'm-a let you read Wolfgang a bedtime story. you'd keep him up nights.)

belledame222 said...

AP!!

antiprincess said...

hello.

mWAH!

I'd hate to see what you'd do to Hop On Pop.

Kim said...

WEE LIKE DUCKLINGS!
U eat themz, Belle?
YAY!

Anna

I may be scardz of ducklings.
May be.

Zuzu

I LOVE THEM, THE DUCKLINGS!

Kim

CrackerLilo said...

Adorable. Just adorable. And anyone who makes something bigger out of it is just *trying* to look smart.

Died laughing at your analysis!!!