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My virtue is that I say what I think, my vice that what I think doesn't amount to much.

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Poor Little Christopher Robin


 Some people are good with children. Others are not. It is a gift. You either have it or you don’t. My father didn’t—not with children, that is… There are two sorts of writer. There is the writer who is basically a reporter and there is the creative writer. The one draws on his experiences, the other on his dreams. My father was a creative writer and so it was precisely because he was not able to play with his small son that his longings sought and found satisfaction in another direction. He wrote about him instead. 
Read the story of the real Christopher Robin at Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog
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