Monday, May 22, 2006
The great places you'll go
Could you relate to any of Milo's stops and visits during his journey? I personally dither in the Land of Expectations. There's also the Island of Conclusions, the Doldrums, or maybe you relate to aspects of Dictionopolis or Digitopolis. Or how about the Forest of Sight, Valley of Sound, Castle in the Air or Mountains of Ignorance?
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Honestly, I seem to jump back and forth between Expectations and Doldrums. Every day or week or month I have Expectations, but my day-to-day existence since quitting my job seems to be similar to the Doldrums.
I love how people have to eat their words in Dictionopolis and how the citizens are "always very pleased to see someone go."
I like Illusions and Reality, the former where people see what isn't there, and the latter where people don't see what's there. I relate to both.
I don't like Digitopolis, where the Mathemagician doesn't even know Order of Operations! (The long piece of arithmetic that he claims comes out to zero actually comes out to negative 47 and 95/238ths, if my math is correct.)
And the Castle in the Air isn't nice at all, "for no matter how beautiful it seems, it's still nothing but a prison." I wonder where it went when it flew off.
I LOVE Dictionopolis. My favorite part is when all the trays of words get spilled and consequently "for several minutes no one spoke an understandable sentence."
"Done what you've looked!"
It's so awesome. Imagine how fun that would be for a kid reader.
I love Dictionopolis, too. I love how they eat their words, so they say delicious things.
I hated the eating in Digitopolis, with the subtraction stew that makes you hungrier and hungrier. I felt frustrated just reading about it.
I love that you wind up in the Doldrums by not thinking. This Juster was a genius.
How could copy editors not love Dictionopolis?
I found out that my last name starts out dry and sawdusty, but ends icy and refreshing.
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