When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.-- Winnie-The-Pooh –
Today is Alan Alexander Milne’s birthday. He is better known as A.A. Milne, the creator of Winnie-The-Pooh. He was born in London on this day in 1882.
Of his chosen profession he is known to have said: “Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.”
Poor Milne. He was probably quite poor! And yet, according to the Forbes Fictional Characters Listing, back in 2003 Winnie-the-Pooh was the second most lucrative fictional character, behind only Mickey Mouse in annually generated revenue. In 2003, Pooh, and Pooh related, umm, Pooh-stuff was bringing in 5.6 billion dollars of revenue. [That’s a lot of hunny!]
In 2004, figures were roughly 5.3 billion.
In light of those facts, Pooh-Bear himself seems downright prophetic... stuff can become “quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.”
Have a great Wednesday!
Have you read "The Tao of Pooh" and "The Te of Piglet?" I loved these books. I've never understood Eastern philosophies better.
ReplyDeleteI have seen the books, but have never read them. Perhaps I'll have a better look at them, the next time I find myself in their midst.
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