X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Fbook-review-johnny-the-walrus.md;h=9f7e665a0de2a4cc0d677fcece52b5bfc2c236af;hp=eda22722513453c8fdc264c72427c76103d99de2;hb=bbb4315cfe37f42c0a61994345d427d876ff06a5;hpb=0c0916ea6c4ae88efcd6a285041bea1db123c214 diff --git a/content/drafts/book-review-johnny-the-walrus.md b/content/drafts/book-review-johnny-the-walrus.md index eda2272..9f7e665 100644 --- a/content/drafts/book-review-johnny-the-walrus.md +++ b/content/drafts/book-review-johnny-the-walrus.md @@ -6,4 +6,4 @@ Status: draft This is a terrible children's book that could have been great if the author could have just _pretended to be subtle_. Our protagonist, Johnny, is a kid who loves to play make-believe. One day, he pretends to be a walrus, fashioning "tusks" for himself with wooden spoons, and "flippers" from socks. Unfortunately, Johnny's mother takes him literally: she has him put on gray makeup, gives him worms to eat, and takes him to the zoo to be with the "other" walruses. -With competent execution, this could be a great children's book! The premise is not "realistic"—no sane parent would conclude their child is _literally_ a walrus _because he said so_—but it's a kind of non-realism common in children's literature, attributing simple, caricatured motivations to characters in order to tell a silly, memorable story. +With competent execution, this could be a great children's book! The premise is not realistic—no sane parent would conclude their child is _literally_ a walrus _because he said so_—but it's a kind of non-realism common in children's literature, attributing simple, caricatured motivations to characters in order to tell a silly, memorable story.