The boys and I have most of Dr Seuss in hardcover. I think it is useful to know that both the Grinch and the Cat in the Hat are available in Latin.
These lines from Hunches in Bunches have always made me smile when sitting with friends who stare at the wall of, “Well what exactly should I do?”
From the book-
“My trouble was I had a mind. But I couldn’t make it up.”
The narrator goes through quite a lot of coulds, shoulds, woulds as assorted Hunches who come in and try to persuade him. My favorite lines are these…
“”That mind of yours,” I heard him say, “is frightfully ga fluppted. Your mind is murky-mooshy! Will you make it up? Or won’t you? If you won’t you are a wonter! Do you understand? Or don’t you? If you don’t, you are a donter. You’re a canter if you can’t. I would like to help you. But you’re hopeless. So I shan’t.”
And how we laugh to reduce things to this.
A child’s rhyme reminds us, to stop thinking and start doing. So we raise our glasses and in the silence of the clinks, we each know exactly what we can do, what we do do, and what we will do.
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