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...or a more modernist rap of the same: https://youtu.be/nwDGRUzv3SE
Moxy Fruvous also did a song inspired by the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzUdmFecExo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhuWipIDhwI
*not actually Dylan but it's a great take on him and there's six more Seuss songs on the album.
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This is a job for QuoteInvestigator! https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/28/baby-shoes/ (It was not Hemingway.)
That's quite an extensive investigation to read!
The primary lesson is that almost every famous quotation has been misattributed, inevitably to someone more famous. It's surprisingly unusual to find a famous quote that the famous person actually said.
Green Eggs and Ham is a great starter book, but IMHO the greatest of Dr Seuss's many great books is Oh, the Places You'll Go! . His mastery of "simple" English is stunning, kids find it enthralling, and the messages are surprisingly deep. Here's the text, but the original illustrated version is so much better: https://www.poetrygrrrl.com/oh-the-places-youll-go-by-dr-seu...
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That's quite an extensive investigation to read!
After 10 years he has built up quite a repertoire, and it's starting to get rarer to run across a quote he hasn't covered. The primary lesson is that almost every famous quotation has been misattributed, inevitably to someone more famous. It's surprisingly unusual to find a famous quote that the famous person actually said.
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After 10 years he has built up quite a repertoire, and it's starting to get rarer to run across a quote he hasn't covered. The primary lesson is that almost every famous quotation has been misattributed, inevitably to someone more famous. It's surprisingly unusual to find a famous quote that the famous person actually said.
Except Churchill, I'm sure
For me the genius of "green eggs and ham" is that you read it to your kid at about the time they become more picky with their food. So the book is a lesson too. Some days I really want to read this book to my kid: https://www.amazon.com.au/You-Have-F-king-Eat/dp/1501238663
That lesson can backfire. When my father decided to treat me to "green eggs and ham" on my birthday thinking I'd be thrilled. But in order to mix in the food coloring he needed to chop the ham into pieces and scramble the eggs. Because it didn't match the image of whole ham and unbroken yolks, I hated it and threw a tantrum. I was quite the problem child. Semi-related, my favorite cheese is Swiss because it has holes…
More a lesson on "See how much time he wasted refusing it when he could have simply tried it to begin with?"