marychipman
Jan 19, 2024

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Dorothy Parker wrote a blistering review of The House at Pooh Corner in her Constant Reader column for The New Yorker back in 1928. She pulled text from p. 5, and summed it up thusly:

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'Tiddley what? said Piglet.' (He took, as you might say, the very words out of your correspondent's mouth.)

'Pom, said Pooh. I put that in to make it more hummy.'

And it is that word 'hummy,' my darlings, that makes the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader Fwowed up."

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marychipman

Autodidact. Retired writer. Adore learning; despise being taught. Maven of many things.