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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
On my blog I wrote an entry concerning the Jan. 17 profile of Hanya Yanagihara. Didn't seem appropriate to make the comment here.
Front-Ranger:
The first thing I read in the Jan. 24th issue is the review of the original and new translation of the book Bambi: A Life in the Woods and of the Disney movie, by Kathryn Schulz. Yes, I still feel reverberations of the trauma I experienced watching the movie as a child. I didn't really understand it when his mother died because I had never seen a gun before (Except for Elmer Fudd's but he never had a chance against the wascally Bugs). But I did feel terror when the fire raged through the forest. And I wondered at the ending: why was Bambi, like his father, regarding the family from a distance and not going to them? Shulz explains it all.
Walt Disney shaped my and countless baby boomers' entire world. Would life be totally different if he had gone into some other line of work? I wonder...
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on January 21, 2022, 06:08:52 pm ---The first thing I read in the Jan. 24th issue is the review of the original and new translation of the book Bambi: A Life in the Woods and of the Disney movie, by Kathryn Schulz. Yes, I still feel reverberations of the trauma I experienced watching the movie as a child. I didn't really understand it when his mother died because I had never seen a gun before (Except for Elmer Fudd's but he never had a chance against the wascally Bugs). But I did feel terror when the fire raged through the forest. And I wondered at the ending: why was Bambi, like his father, regarding the family from a distance and not going to them? Shulz explains it all.
Walt Disney shaped my and countless baby boomers' entire world. Would life be totally different if he had gone into some other line of work? I wonder...
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I read that article, too, though it reverberated less for me because I've never seen Bambi. Still, as I read, I kept thinking, Wouldn't it be awfully traumatic for a small child, that part about losing his mother? It would have been for me.
Sounds like bookends to me, the father at the beginning and Bambi at the end.
I wonder how you pronounce the name in German?
Jeff Wrangler:
I haven't yet read the article about Thomas Mann, but I intend to. I was browsing through it and came across a quote from Mann that if Fascism ever came to America, it would be in the name of Freedom.
There's a prophecy for you.
Jeff Wrangler:
I should keep John McPhee's article in the Feb. 7 issue for where he writes about scotches and bourbons.
Distilleries get bought and sold by different companies, even though they keep their names (brand identification). Maker's Mark, however, is still made by Maker's Mark in Loretto, Kentucky--at least, that's what it says on the bottle I have in my liquor cupboard.
Pappy Van Winkle's is Walt Longmire's preferred bourbon.
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