Monday, August 19, 2013

Snow upon (snow upon (snow …) …)


When night falls, at story-time, these are the tales they tell.

They tell of the great snowfall -- The Big One – O what a time it was!
They tell it at length, and in loving detail.

And as each one succumbs to the tug of the tale, sinking into snowdrifts of sleep,
their bunkmates in the burrow   take up the thread…
"It snowed and it snowed and it snowed and it snowed"
            "and it snowed and it snowed and it snowed and it"
                        "snowed and it"           
                                    "snowed and"  "it snowed"           
                                                "and it"
                                    "snowedandit"    "snowedandit"
snowedanditsnowedanditsnowedanditsnowed…
              snowed
                        snowed
                                                snowed
snowed
            snowed
                        snowed
                                    snowed
                                                                        . . . . . . . .



[Scholiast to scholars:
The Urtext for this is “Piglet Entirely Surrounded by Water”.]

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