My wife, a biomedical researcher / professor, just saw this thread. She knows nothing about Gregorian chant. She presently makes her living (despite having a Ph.D in things more complicated than I can understand) selling Mary Kay makeup because that's what she enjoys doing. She offers free facials (which is a code word for a sales pitch) to all female Colloquium attendees in exchange for a scholarship. I can't tell if she's joking or not.
I really thought of it more as a poem than a hymn.
Major influences on my work include: Neal, Caswall, Watts, Wesley, Geisel, Silverstein, Aquinas, and the guy who writes limericks for "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me"
One day I will write a groundbreaking book on linguistic pedagogy wherein I argue that the reason I took so easily to Shakespeare in middle school was my firm grounding in Dr. Seuss as a child.
My dad read "One Fish Two Fish" just about every night when I was little. It's one of the things I'm most looking forward to...
A good testament to character, I believe, is whether a person likes Dr. Seuss or not. I've had some friends who I thought were my friends, until they disclosed their disdain for Seuss. Too many words. Silly, dumb. Well, that just shows me that these people are lacking a sense of whimsy and delight when it comes to the spoken word.
What could more ridiculous and delightful than the Bumble Tub club? Those snooping for soup, all done ala hoop? the Curious Crandles and their hot dripping grease? The Redzoff twins talking their heads off?????
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