As a child, I
read it over and over and over again, learning it off by heart, and all through
my life I've found myself quoting it, particulaly certain lines that make me smile:
The Perilous Poozer of Pomplemousse
Pass
He waved me a wave that was gentle and kind
I practically almost had given up hope
When someone up high shouted,
"Here, catch the rope!"
Everything I loved about it as a child continues to charm - the
inventive perfect cleverness of the rhyme, the surreal zany landscape, the
hapless hero and his encounters with one dodgy deluded character after
another, and the way the moral messages
are repeatedly undermined, so you can never really come to any conclusion about
what has transpired.
What a prodigous and fascinating gift he had - all hail,
and all gratitude to Dr Seuss!
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