Subject: Re: Wind in the Willows
From: Jim Rovira (jrovira@drew.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 10 2001 - 09:45:34 GMT
I'll have to read the book, but my first response to statements like this
is: "What a bunch of hooey."
"And that's when Tonstance Weader fwowed up..."
Jim
Paul Miller wrote:
>
> This from Milne on Wind in the Willows is priceless.
>
> "One does not argue about The Wind in the Willows. The young man gives it to
> the girl with whom he is in love, and, if she does not like it, asks her to
> return his letters. The older man tries it on his nephew, and alters his
> will accordingly. The book is a test of character. We can't criticize it,
> because it is criticizing us. But I must give you one word of warning. When
> you sit down to it, don't be so ridiculous as to suppose that you are
> sitting in judgment on my taste, or on the art of Kenneth Grahame. You are
> merely sitting in judgment on yourself. You may be worthy: I don't know, But
> it is you who are on trial."
>
> A. A. Milne
>
> Paul
>
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