| Title: | What's all this fuss about 'sax and violins'? |
| Notice: | Archived V1 - Current conference is QUARK::HUMAN_RELATIONS |
| Moderator: | ELESYS::JASNIEWSKI |
| Created: | Fri May 09 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Jun 26 1996 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
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I received a nice tape for an early Christmas present. It is the story of the Velveteen Rabbit narrated by Meryl Streep with a piano accompaniment by George Winston. I had heard a quote from the story but I had never read or listen to the story in full. It is beautiful and I love the music. Basically once the toy rabbit became loved he was real. Initially that concept bothered me a bit because in order to be real someone else had to love and the rabbit didn't have control. Then the rabbit outlived his usefullness to the little boy and was about to be destroyed. But the Fairie that made toys real came by and turned the used rabbit into a real live rabbit and the rabbit went off to a new adventure. One day the boy was playing in the woods and he saw the rabbit and he thought that he seemed familiar. The rabbit was loved, lost and remembered and still enjoyed life. But the part that I related to was that the love the toy rabbit had received from the young boy had made him worn and threadbare, but he was still real. So even those of us that are old and a little worn around the edges are real!
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| 926.1 | CSC32::WOLBACH | Wed Dec 20 1989 15:28 | 29 | ||
GETTING REAL
"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 very 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 often happen 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 the
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....but once you are Real, you can't become unreal again.
It lasts for always.:
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| 926.2 | WAHOO::LEVESQUE | Je pense, je ris, je r�ve | Wed Dec 20 1989 16:33 | 13 | |
This topic is like d�j� vu. My wife just yesterday showed me a
sweatshirt sized for our little one that had a scene from the book
painted on it, along with a caption pertaining to "..and finally the
rabbitt was real" or something similar. She picked it up (where else?)
at a craft fair a few weeks ago.
The passage quoted in .1 was one that my wife had me read from the book
a few weeks ago, too. What a strange coincidence.
I like to (try to) read the book to Kacie. She does real well for a few
pages, then it's off to the races. :-)
The Doctah
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| 926.3 | Charlotte's favorite | MCDONL::BARANSKI | Neomaniac on the loose! | Mon Sep 24 1990 18:57 | 6 |
I don't think that it is only through the love of someone outside that the toys became 'real'. If you recall, toys that broke easily didn't often become real. To become real, that love has to have meaning and be important to the toy, and be returned. Jim. | |||||