Windy

Am I the only parent -- nay, the only person -- who doesn't like The Wind in the Willows?

I didn't like it when I was first introduced to it in grade school. It was bad enough that the characters were either completely insipid or actively antisocial, but then the one part that could have been exciting, where Toad leads the local constabulary on a car chase straight out of Ronin, happened completely offstage.

Then in the nineties Terry Jones didn't help whan he made a film version, with himself as Toad and a cast that included fellow Monty Python members Michael Palin, Eric Idle, and John Cleese. I have never been so disappointed in a movie in my life.

A couple of weeks ago, my wife got M. Edium his very own abridged hardcover edition, and promised that one of us would read him a chapter every night. At first I thought, "Thank God it's abridged." Now I just think, "Thank God I don't know where it is."

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