Z: What do you want fwrom me? I'm only just beginning to live!
Points if you recognize the book, and I swear, she chose it all by herself at the bookstore, (not-so-)vaguely disturbing sexual overtones and all.
Edited: The book is The Amazing Bone, by William Steig, and really, you need to check out the sample pages to get a sense of the flowering, blossoming, blooming, pollen-drenched world that Pearl walks through with a bone hanging out of her open purse. I mean, come on.
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Damn, second time today I must profess cultural ignorance on someone's blog.
What is it?
oh, this is gonna drive me nuts.
She chose it herself so probably it's a kids' book...but, disturbing sexual overtones...well, probably it's an older book. And the only old book I can think of at this very moment is "Make Way for Ducklings" and I just know that's not it.
The only thing that comes to mind is "Now We Are Six", but I'm rusty on the verses, so I'm probably wrong.
Oh, I do know that book! Yeah, Steig has a way of getting into the dark undercurrents over which most kids' book writers choose to skim. "Sylvester and the Magic Pebble" is like that, too, only it has disturbing mortality-related overtones instead of sexual ones. It's a terrific book but it used to make me cry every time.
Er...Something by Nabokov? Romeo and Juliet? (getting desperate here...)
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