Reading Pooh again for the first time
Have just started reading The Tao of Pooh and the Te of Piglet which is simply fabulous:
“What’s this you’re writing?” asked Pooh, climbing onto the writing table.
“The Tao of Pooh,” I replied.
“The how of Pooh?” asked Pooh, smudging one of the words I had just written.
“The Tao of Pooh,” I replied, poking his paw away with my pencil.
“It seems more like the ow! of Pooh,” said Pooh, rubbing his paw.
“Well, it’s not,” I replied huffily.
“What’s it about?” asked Pooh, leaning forward and smearing another word.
“It’s about how to stay happy and calm under all circumstances!” I yelled.
“Have you read it?” asked Pooh.
Utterly charming and wise, and awakening in me a fierce desire to re-read AA Milne’s classics. It has been too long. (Oh and the stuff about Taoism is really interesting as well!!)
November 29th, 2006 at 2:32 pm
As with Emblazoned, you have abviously used a very poor translation of this noteworthy document. The following is a far better rendering of the original poobearian dialect:
It seems more like the ow! of pooh,” said Pooh, rubbing his flaming hemarhoids.
November 29th, 2006 at 2:38 pm
LOL! I never read the books until I was an adult and read them to my kids. It was like falling in love
They definitely speak my language. the taoist angle is new to me though ..
November 29th, 2006 at 2:48 pm
It is quite clever actually. He uses the different characters of the Hundred Acres Woods to illustrate different concepts in Taoism, even adopting some of the stories and songs of AA Milne in service of his illustrations. He intersperses this with quotes from Taoist writings and humorous little conversations with Pooh, Tigger and the gang themselves.
November 29th, 2006 at 4:23 pm
Almost thou persuadest me ..
But am I, in my advanced years, post-modern enough to cope with transporting the hundred acre wood to China?
November 29th, 2006 at 6:51 pm
I don’t know. Are you at the same stage as my dad, who once told me that he had bought a book to learn more about this postmodernism thing and proudly produced his koorong purchase titled something like “Why postmodernism is the work of the devil”
November 29th, 2006 at 7:18 pm
Oh dear … no .. I actually preached a sermon a few months ago on why the gospels were probably a better model for post modern evangelism whereas paul’s epistles gave us models for a modernist approach
Having said that, it’s still a lot for a creaky baby boomer ..
November 30th, 2006 at 6:21 pm
I thought postmodernism was the work of the devil. :-}
November 30th, 2006 at 6:22 pm
Darnit… how do you do those smiley things again????
December 1st, 2006 at 8:46 am
You don’t. Seriously.
December 1st, 2006 at 11:43 am
the emergent church and specifically Signposts is far more likely to be from the bowels of beelzebub - the spittal of diabolos, the spawn of Satan, the leapard spots of Lucifer, patter of tiney feet from the prince of darkness, wenches of the wicked one, toys of the tempter, babies of Baal
February 27th, 2007 at 5:48 pm
Currently rereading The True Martin Luther King by Michael Dyson . A fantastic book about King’s life which deals with him as a human being not a saint . It examines his theology, his personal life with compassion and his relationship with the African American community .
And just for laughs - I am rereading the Phantom Tollbooth - a childhood favourite about Milo and his adventures