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To: AlanH who wrote (45383)	4/26/1998 1:43:00 AM
From: pat mudge	Read Replies (1) of 61433

Seuss presented nonsensical situations to liberate the child from traditional comparison. In consequence, linguistics could be introduced more freely -- without the incessant (symbolic) reference to some past experience. Whatever his underlying theories, he was a brilliant story-teller and gentle moralist. The collection that includes "Too Many Daves" is called "The Sneetches and Other Stories." The last story in the collection is "Pair of Pale Green Pants With Nobody Inside Them," about a character who's terrified by an empty pair of pants he sees walking down the street. By the end of the story he discovers they were just as afraid of him as he was of them and they become friends. "The Sneetches" is about characters with stars on their bellies that make them superior. When someone comes along with a "star-on machine" that allows starless creatures to have the coveted stars, the Sneetches don't want theirs any more and someone quickly designs a "star-off machine" so they can be superior by not having stars. You can guess how it goes from there. I don't think I ever tired of reading Seuss stories to my kids. And, your're right, his use of language is liberating. Have you read "Oh, the Places You Can Go?" It ends: "So. . . be your name Buxbaum or Bixby or Bray or Mordecai Ali Van Allen O'Shea, you're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So. . . get on your way! And for your collection of trivia, the main library at UC San Diego was recently renamed the Theodore Geisel Library and their Special Collections Department houses many of his original stories and illustrations. Worth a visit if you're in the area. Later -- Pat

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