pig and spider

Alden 2022-03-23 09:02:43

Animals that seem completely unrelated: pigs and spiders.

I was curious, so I bought the book, but didn't settle down to read it.

Movies can be a very good medium. In the years when my imagination is fading, help me to restore my imagination and calm down. After an hour and a half, I finally understand how such a group of animals can produce such a touching story.

Maybe it was too anthropomorphic, too "American," too bizarre, so I didn't read the book after all. Movies are enough.

Pigs and spiders, anything, with imagination, can be something.

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Charlotte's Web quotes

  • [Templeton is being chased by two crows and finding shelter inside a tin can]

    Templeton: The rat... is not... uh, uh, enjoying this! All this for slop? The rat is desperate. The rat is trapped. The rat needs to stop calling himself "the rat".

  • Wilbur: [about Charlotte] She's dying! She can't go home with us. So I need you to help me take her egg sac with us.

    Templeton: Did you say "eggs"?

    Wilbur: It's an egg *sac*, and it's right up there, and it has her children in it. And I can't just leave it here. What if something happened to them? Now, I can't reach it, so I need you to get it for me. And I need you to do it *now*!

    Templeton: I don't think I like your tone.

    Wilbur: Can't you just once in your life think of someone other than yourself?

    Templeton: Once? Once?

    Wilbur: Come on.

    Templeton: No, *you* come on! Who got his hindquarters pecked to make you "radiant," huh? Templeton, that's who. And who interrupted the gorging of a lifetime so you could be "humble"? Why, I think it was... Templeton! Templeton, Templeton, Tem-ple-ton! And do I get thanked? No! Well, has it ever occurred to you that even a rat might like a little appreciation? A little, dare I say, *love*?

    Wilbur: Do it and you'll get dibs on my slop for the rest of my life.

    Templeton: Done.