Pure poetry aided and abetted by Erik Satie, recommended by Norwegianity.
Every afternoon at four o’clock, he finds himself in a room where he sits and watches the passing of the telephone lines playing on the opposite wall.
The other day H.o.p. saw something that was only a positive archetypal figure in a brief story. I forget what it was. But he said to me, “That’s not the whole story.” I said why not, what did he mean, I thought it was very nice. And he replied, “Every story has a villain. Where’s the villain?”
Writing 101 via a seven-year-old.
Today he watches the above short cartoon with me, “Away”. Then of course he wants to see the other short animations archived at Monkmus. The symbolism was a bit complex for him. “A Day at the Park” had me explaining the meaning of being stabbed in the back. We were both entertained by “Orson”. He thought “Fender Bender” very amusing and laughed throughout and said he wanted to make his own cartoon. He was puzzled by “Basin Street Blues.”
The last one we watched was “Year of the Rat” and if you watch it too you will know at what point he started smiling and smiled to the end.
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