The Adventures of Pinocchio

60Watch it awake.

Collodi's puppet runs, lies, and is nearly a donkey; the cartoon is the soft memory.

The review

He is not good at the start. Carlo Collodi, 1883. A puppet runs away, lies, and is nearly turned into a donkey. A cricket warns him. The nose is the bill for the lie. I grew up on the later cartoon, and this is harder than that memory. A child can read it. I would not pretend the songs are in the book.

Running away is the pleasure he wants, and the book will not let it stay pleasant. Nearly a donkey is a body paying for the life he chose. I won't add scenes past the running, the lie, and that near change. The cricket's warning is there before he takes it. If we read this, we say the lie has a bill you can see on the face, and we don't sand it down into a film we remember being cute.

Journal

Keep The Adventures of Pinocchio in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 60. Yours can differ.

The glance

Courage and Republic are the thin ones.

Does anyone risk something they would miss, or is it only noise?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

The eight

5
Industry
He runs away, and the book treats that flight as the failed work.
7
Household
A puppet runs off, and a cricket has to give the warning.
6
Piety
The cricket warns him, and at the start he is not good enough to hear.
4
Courage
He runs away and lies, and is nearly turned into a donkey for it.
4
Republic
A boy's disobedience, not a debt he pays to a town or a law.
8
Temperance
The fun of running off is checked by nearly becoming a donkey.
9
Truth
The nose is the bill for the lie, and the book is harder than the cartoon.
5
Stewardship
Left on him: a nose that marks the lie, and a body nearly a donkey.

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Story · A household shelf · 1884

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

61Watch it awake.

The conscience is real and badly taught. The last chapters waste the point. Read it awake.

The review

Huck Finn has been told that a black man is property and that helping him run is a sin. On the river he decides he would rather be damned than send Jim back. The book wants you to see that the boy's training was the lie, and the choice was the truth.

It is not a gentle book, and the last part is a failure of nerve. Tom Sawyer turns Jim's freedom into a game. Do not read that part as wisdom. Read the river. Then say, in plain words, what your house was taught to call normal that a child might have to refuse.

Journal

Keep Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 61. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household is the thin one.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

The Secret Garden

73 instead of 61

The Secret Garden is still a story film, and it scores 73 instead of 61. What you gain is household: A shut-up house opens.