"Just for once, let me look on you with my own eyes."

as for Tashtego's fate here: "through the courage and great skill in obstetrics of Queequeg, the deliverance, or rather, delivery of Tashtego, was successfully accomplished… Midwifery should be taught in the same course with fencing and boxing, riding and rowing."

it's a good book, y'all!

I clicked through and caught a channel in the middle of the Muppet Family Christmas sing-along, and no surprise, started crying at Jim's appearance at the end

"wild animals driving cars" is definitely an idea that could only be executed by the slop machine

same book:

"She was at the age when she looked as much like an overgrown boy as a girl. And on that subject why was it that the smartest people mostly missed that point? By nature all people are of both sexes. So that marriage and the bed is not all by any means. The proof? Real youth and old age."

Scrooge: "I understand! Thank you, Spirit! I will honour Christmas in my heart!"

Present Spirit: "And…?"

Scrooge: "…and?"

Future Spirit: *shows up with a baseball bat labeled "Keep It All The Year"*

and his pride costs the girl her life

he had multiple chances to back out of his Faustian bargain, but he refused, and everyone paid the price

Seymour and Billy could have been heroes… but ended as villains

(this is the biggest reason why I hate the "happy ending" they added to the "LSoH" movie)

he's keen on the sweet girl

she needs someone who can meet her emotionally (and not be evil)

but that would require meekness and vulnerability on his part, which he's scared to give

so instead, he falls back to the manly impulse to provide materially, for which he doubles down on his Evil Bargain

so, what does Audrey want?

a Better Home

what should Better Homes come with?

Gardens

so her imagination fixates on the one "gardener" she knows: Seymour

but!

what does she picture as the one responsibility of her ideal gardener?

he keeps. the plants. in check.

me on my walk: "been a while since I've listened to this one"

*album starts, opening instrumentation*

me, absently: "subsequent to the events you have just witnessed…"

narrator, overlapping: "on the 21st day of the month of September…"

me: "… unsuspecting jerks from Maine to California…
"…
"…hm"