I'm not in the book, you know
Nov. 9th, 2010 11:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marnanelI was quite distracted by running across a banner online that had the text:
"Promise me you'll never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave." — Winnie the Pooh
Now, I'm pretty certain (without having looked it up) that this doesn't appear in the books. Perhaps it occurs in the films (of which I have seen none). But if you ask Google, all you get is pages and pages of people saying that it appears in the Pooh canon, or (even more confusingly) that it was written by A. A. Milne. I am wondering whether it's actually a line that sounded Pooh-like to someone and was wrongly attributed and then propagated.
I'm also unsure whether they use "Winnie the Pooh" to mean the book of that name, or the whole canon, or the character of Edward Bear. From the context, I thought they meant the character. But that makes no sense at all, because Pooh could not have said this, since he never left Christopher Robin. It was Christopher Robin who left Pooh.
I am all confused.
"Promise me you'll never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave." — Winnie the Pooh
Now, I'm pretty certain (without having looked it up) that this doesn't appear in the books. Perhaps it occurs in the films (of which I have seen none). But if you ask Google, all you get is pages and pages of people saying that it appears in the Pooh canon, or (even more confusingly) that it was written by A. A. Milne. I am wondering whether it's actually a line that sounded Pooh-like to someone and was wrongly attributed and then propagated.
I'm also unsure whether they use "Winnie the Pooh" to mean the book of that name, or the whole canon, or the character of Edward Bear. From the context, I thought they meant the character. But that makes no sense at all, because Pooh could not have said this, since he never left Christopher Robin. It was Christopher Robin who left Pooh.
I am all confused.
