This is probably not the place to ask but I need something to read at a fellow
librarians wedding.
I am thinking about reading the conversation between Skin Horse and Velveteen
Rabbit - about being real and relating it to their love and how real it is. Any
other suggestions??????
Here's the part from Velveteen Rabbit I am thinking about reading:
"Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to
you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but
REALLY loves you, then you become Real." "Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit.
"Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real
you don't mind being hurt." "Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he
asked, "or bit by bit?" "It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You
become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who
break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by
the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out
and you get loose in your joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at
all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't
understand."
Christine Carr
Noecker School
Roseland, NJ 07068
bookladycc@yahoo.com
---------------------------------
Do you Yahoo!?
The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-
All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law.
To change your LM_NET status, e-mail to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu
In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL
3) SET LM_NET MAIL 4) SET LM_NET DIGEST * Allow for confirmation.
LM_NET Help & Information: http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/
Archive: http://askeric.org/Virtual/Listserv_Archives/LM_NET.shtml
LM_NET Select/EL-Announce: http://www.cuenet.com/archive/el-announce/
LM_NET Supporters: http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/ven.html
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-
LM_NET
Mailing List Home