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HereSince1628

(36,063 posts) Fri Mar 28, 2014, 01:47 PM Mar 2014

What if Milne had written Holden Caulfield rather than Christopher Robin into Winnie the Pooh?

Opening..."Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, f**k, f**k, f**k on the back of his head, behind Holden Caulfield. It is, as far as he knows, the only damned way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another f'ing way, if only he could stop this f'ing bumping for a moment and and have a chance to think of it.”