C.A.B.
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Almost every generation alive today around the world grew up on the works Theodor Geisel. You know him by his nom de plume, Dr. Seuss. In a career that spanned the Saturday Evening Post in 1927 to a special Pulitzer Prize in 1984, Geisel's peculiar prose and outlandish art pounded poetic primers into the brains of children near to far and far to near for nearly half a century. There is nary a soul on the planet that has not pondered the foreboding gastronomical gamble of Green Eggs and Ham. What was the universal appeal of Dr. Seuss? Was it whimsy? Was it weirdness? Was it he was not beardless? …or was it just flat out aggressive global marketing in the mid-20th century?
Having grown up and weened on the pages of Dr. Seuss, I'm gonna side with weird. That's what appealed to me. Even as a child I understood these children's' books were like no other. They were twisted. Almost… creepy, in their own way. One must admit being stalked by a midget purveying spoiled dairy products and rancid pork until one exhaustively capitulates; or having a 9 ft cat trash your house with two more midgets while your mother is out, is quite borderline whacked. So we loved it. But even in that light we are inclined to lump ol' Theo into that same angelic Sainthood that Mr. Rogers shares. That is until one unearths Dr. Seuss' nudie drawings, The Seven Lady Godivas. Well, what do you know, Dr. Seuss was a bit a perv after all. But we always suspected that, didn't we?
So here, of course, is my C.A.B.ified fetish take on the good Doctor. And all things considered, I'm sure it is really not that much of a leap of absurdity. I mean, I'm sure Mr. Geisel had no qualms about trying it in a box with a fox.
~ C.A.B.
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