When I was a kid

Odradek

I thought the non-ending of Stuart Little was some deep and profound statement but no, it turns out White just died before he finished it

Odradek

https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/3czuh6/just_finished_reading_stuart_little_to_my_kids/

Klinotaxis

wait wait wait, back the fuck up, it was written by white, as in strunk and white? shit

Odradek

Huh you didn't know that?

He wrote Charlotte's Web too

Klinotaxis

i thought strunk and white were like, english professors. people who only wrote about writing

Odradek

Well maybe Strunk was

Obā-san

Klinotaxis said:

wait wait wait, back the fuck up, it was written by white, as in strunk and white? shit

this reminds me, for a long time i didnt realize that utilitarian bentham and panopticon bentham were the same dude

i just somehow assumed it was two different dudes named bentham who both just really liked surveillance

Tatterhood

Klinotaxis said:

i thought strunk and white were like, english professors. people who only wrote about writing

I think strunk was that

Calica

Tatterhood said:

Klinotaxis said:

i thought strunk and white were like, english professors. people who only wrote about writing

I think strunk was that

Apparently Strunk was White's English teacher

Imipolex G

I knew White as the author of Charlotte's Web long before I knew about the Strunk-White writing thing.

So I had the opposite sort of surprise

Tatterhood

Imipolex G said:

I knew White as the author of Charlotte's Web long before I knew about the Strunk-White writing thing.

So I had the opposite sort of surprise

This was my experience also.

Princess Alice

Imipolex G said:

I knew White as the author of Charlotte's Web long before I knew about the Strunk-White writing thing.

So I had the opposite sort of surprise

Oh hey, me too.

I read Stuart Little at a summer camp for "gifted and talented" students the summer after 6th grade. It was held at a university in Delaware, Ohio and we were in a dorm with no air conditioning, so we were all sitting around with fans running and drinking loads of Coke (because as kids we didn't know that Coke doesn't keep you hydrated). It was...an experience, for sure.

vtk

The first I'd heard of Strunk & White was in the xkcd comic, Strunk/White

Imipolex G

Coke doesn't keep you hydrated????!?

Calica

I don't think Coke actually has enough caffeine to be a full diuretic but it does make you need to pee more than water does

Imipolex G

Also what is this, Stuart Little was published in 1945 and White died in 1985. 40 years wasn't enough to think of an ending?

Princess Alice

I think that was the joke.

Imipolex G

I can never tell if it's joke