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I don?t think Barks was intentionally racist or misogynistic but more a product of the times in which he wrote. That said any racism or misogyny in the stories needs to be pointed out and discussed.
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That's a very good way to approach the study of literature!
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Sometimes second guessing the intentions throws you out of the work.
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Sometimes it's not good to be trapped in the work :-)
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Considering what characters go through, there's not too many books I'd like to be trapped in.
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May I recommend a benign,static one? Like the Hundred Acre Wood? Or... the Ducktales universe, Scrooge's mansion!
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May I recommend a benign,static one? Like the Hundred Acre Wood? As long as it's not on a blustery day. And as long as no one gets stuck halfway inside a honey tree.
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And as long as we stay away from the heffalumps and woozles.
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I heard a sketch last week where the animals conduct an intervention for Pooh on his crazed honey addiction. It cites some of his published adventures as highly endangering acts to get his fix, and his mood swings when he doesn't get the honey. Piglet has become scared of him. At the end, it's the thought that his behaviour has parallels with the deranged Tigger that convinces Pooh to stop.
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Another intervention success story!
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Oh no! How can we have Pooh without him feeling it was time for a little something? (Actually writing that out and I can totally agree with an intervention order.)
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I'm sure Rabbit was very happy with the result!
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Oh no! How can we have Pooh without him feeling it was time for a little something? (Actually writing that out and I can totally agree with an intervention order.)
Exactly.  It was in John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme, which gets a thothy double thumbs up. Edit: And it was a deranged Tigger comparisons he gave up honey on account of. I'd left out tigger in my last post, and it must have been keeping people up nights wondering.
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Dorothy Parker wrote reviews as Constant Reader. In her review of House at Pooh Corner she wrote ? Tonstant Weader Fwowed up?
Darn it those question marks should be quotation marks.
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Why, Dowothy, that's awfuwwy hawsh.
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She had a sharp and vicious tongue.
One story has a young woman telling Dorothy that she could not go to Dorothy?s party because she cannot bear fools. Dorothy replies Your mother could.
My favorite Dorothy story involves her running feud with Clare Boothe Luce. Once they both arrived at a restaurant at the same time. Mrs. Luce said Age before beauty. Dorothy replies And pearls before swine and walked in to the restaurant.
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I think in this case the sharp and vicious tongue was justified. I can have one myself but I try to deploy it only when the situation warrants it
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Oh, don't get me wrong. I love Dorothy Parker. I was just saying that her criticism of House of Pooh Corner was a bit much.
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There is a very fine line between good criticism and too-harsh criticism.
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I think in this case the sharp and vicious tongue was justified. I can have one myself but I try to deploy it only when the situation warrants it "Press the button for tongue deployment!" sounds wrong.
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"Push the button, Frank."
(Pop culture reference that the only Legion Worlder likely to understand is Cleome.)
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Goah! if we were to wait for Cleome to confirm, there's a chance the thread would be dedded.
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"Push the button, Frank."
(Pop culture reference that the only Legion Worlder likely to understand is Cleome.) Nope. I understand it. It happens at Gizmonic Institute.
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I don't, but I googled it
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"Push the button, Frank."
(Pop culture reference that the only Legion Worlder likely to understand is Cleome.) Nope. I understand it. It happens at Gizmonic Institute. Have you ever posted in this thread, Quis? https://legionworld.net/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=892337#Post892337If not, isn't it high time you did?  
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