"In which Piglet Meets a Heffalump" Posted by Douglas on November 08, 1999 at 08:18:17:
“Piglet, I have decided something.”
“What have you decided, Pooh?”
“I have decided to catch a Heffalump.”
. . .
“I shall do it,” said Pooh, after waiting a little longer, “by means of a trap. And it must be a Cunning Trap, so you will have to help me,
Piglet.”
“Pooh,” said Piglet, feeling quite happy again now, “I will.” And then he said “How shall we do it?” and Pooh said, “That’s just it. How?”
And then they sat down together to think it out.
Pooh’s first idea was that they should dig a Very Deep Pit, and then the Heffalump would come along and fall into the Pit, and —
A. A. Milne
Good Afternoon Coach (given that you were still awake at 3:00 a.m.):
Far be it from me to suggest that all is not as it seems here or that your sincerity is in question, yet this alleged “experiment” has all the
trappings of a Cunning Pooh Trap for Con-Artists. And before I answer your call and in doing so fall into that Very Deep Pit, it is only
fair to warn you that I will not be putting up my hand. Should I end up sitting in the corner, staring at the wall, wearing a dunce’s cap, so
be it.
Besides, there are others here who have yet to put up their hand — the usual suspects. Their silence may be reticence or it may be
collusion.
Nevertheless, I do sense that something is suspect here. Now, I am not generally given to paranoia (and like other sorts of paranoia, this
may be nothing less than the onset, the leading edge, of the discovery that everything is connected, everything in the Creation),
consequently, I am inclined to follow my intuition here. If I end up playing the part of the Fool, so it goes. This Classroom could use a
fool anyways.
delinquently,
Douglas
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