The House at Pooh Corner
TIGGER COMES TO THE FORESTand other storiesStory 1In which a house is built at Pooh Corner for EeyoreStory 2In which Tigger comes to the forest and has breakfastStory 3In which Tigger is unbouncedStory 4In which Eeyore finds the Wolery and Owl moves into itStory 5In which Christopher Robin and Pooh come to an enchanted placePOOH INVENTS A NEW GAMEand other storiesStory 1In which Rabbit has a busy dayStory 2In which Pooh invents a new gameStory 3In which it is shown that Tiggers don’t climb treesStory 4In which a search is organizedStory 5In which Piglet does a very grand thing
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- > self-esteem issues, as if Eeyore did the RLHF inputs
You need to reread Winnie-the-Pooh <https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/67098/pg67098-images.ht...> and The House at Pooh Corner <https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73011/pg73011-images.ht...>. Eeyore is gloomy, yes, but he has a biting wit and gloriously sarcastic personality.
If you want just one section to look at, observe Eeyore as he floats upside-down in a river in Chapter VI of The House at Pooh Corner: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73011/pg73011-images.ht...
(I have no idea what film adaptations may have made of Eeyore, but I bet they ruined him.)
- "When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it."
- The House at Pooh Corner
- Pooh had wandered into the Hundred Acre Wood, and was standing in front of what had once been Owl's House. It didn't look at all like a house now; it looked like a tree which had been blown down; and as soon as a house looks like that, it is time you tried to find another one.
What do you mean, not part of story telling? There are 64 semicolons in The House at Pooh Corner; and by the way, nearly all of them are followed by conjunctions.
- But the original book included the quoted Milne text and Shepard illustrations, so now neither Hoff nor Penguin nor anyone else has the rights to publish it. Reproducing the Milne text might reasonably fall within the ambit of fair use, but the use of the Shepard illustrations would be much more difficult to defend legally.
Christopher Robin Milne himself died at age 75 a quarter-century ago, never ceasing to deplore the commercialization of his father's work ("climbing upon my infant shoulders"). His daughter Clare died in 02012. Disgracefully, I think that some of the Milne and Shepard work is still in copyright; The House at Pooh Corner wasn't published until 01928, and even Winnie-the-Pooh was published in 01926. The only Pooh material published early enough to be in the US public domain is the poem from When we Were Very Young. I think that in two and a half months Winnie-the-Pooh goes into the public domain in the US, but the other remains locked up until 02024. I'm not sure about, for example, the UK; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28926477 says in the UK it's locked up until 02027, which happens to be 15 years after Milne's last living descendant perished.
If Hoff is still alive in 02024, perhaps he will—by virtue of having outlived A.A. Milne by 68 years, almost four human generations—finally win the legal right to comment freely on the spiritual dimensions of Milne's work.
