dr. seuss: the gateway drug.

i just read M_ The Cat in the Hat for the first time ever (wipes sweat from brow), and in the wake of that feel as though i just mainlined some amphetamines or something. weird.

though now that i think about it, the cat really is something of a pusher -- coming to these kids when their mom is gone with his ahem 'fun funny games'. and thing one and thing two? clearly complete stoners (c'mon, kites in the house? and did you check out the dreads? i mean, really...). oh and the fish? a total square.

its like a tableau of players in the drug war. but, you know, for the kids.

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[xine]

god, i remember regretting the first time i read that damn book to alex as a two-year-old. he wanted me to read it to him ALL THE TIME. that's a very long and weird book. it payed off, though, when he was sitting on the porch swing later, saying, "Now what, cat? Now what?" funny memory....

[Amy]

Dr. Seuss was brilliant like that. Now try "Horton Hears a Who" for some more mind-bending fun. I read it to my third and fourth grade students and found them questioning their own existence for the rest of the day.

[roo]

I love Dr. Seuss, but even as a child I never cottoned to the Cat in the Hat. He always seemed a little sinister.