BEATRIX POTTER: THE DARK SIDE

Posted on Sunday 10 December 2006

Peter, chased by some redneck
So far, my daughter and I have found Beatrix Potter to be a proselytiser for sadistic punishment, a sartorial fascist, a property-upholding reactionary, an obsessive-compulsive nutcase (or rather nut-kin) and, conceivably, a bystander in the face of an intolerable natural dystopia that, with her sick (though gifted) writer’s mind, she culpably imagined. As an adult reader, I must say, I’m beginning to like her.

The ugly truth about Peter Rabbit … (Stuart Jeffries in the Guardian, via Table of Malcontents)

Here is the terrifying Vegetable Game, which evidently doesn’t work in Firefox for OS X, because my arrow keys did absolutely nothing and I was forced to rush headlong into Mr. MacGregor and his rake. Twice.


2 Comments for 'BEATRIX POTTER: THE DARK SIDE'

  1.  
    10 December 2006 | 6:09 pm
     

    It works in Safari.

  2.  
    12 December 2006 | 2:58 pm
     

    I’m using Firefox and OSX and it works. That doesn’t mean I did well.

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