"'I think the tiger is Death,' I said. Like Memento Mori or the Seventh Seal, the tiger is a long-range reminder that one of these days there will be no more cakes and tea."
Emma Brockes on Judith Kerr's children's classic The Tiger Who Came To Tea - to which her dad apparently responded "'I think you're over-thinking it'". On the contrary, I think this is an excellent reading - perhaps preferable even to my own, which sees the tiger as either the taxman, taking food out of the mouths of the hard-working common man, or a foreign interloper, coming over 'ere, stealing our food...
(Thanks to Simon for the link.)
Thursday, September 10, 2015
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment