Dorothy Parker on A. A. Milne

A perennial favorite ...


Dorothy Parker, who had little tolerance for whimsy, wrote a book review column for The New Yorker under the pseudonym "Constant Reader." The following is her reaction to A.A. Milne's "The House at Pooh Corner," which she quotes and reacts to:

"'Tiddely what?'" said Piglet." (He took, as you might say, the very words out of your correspondent's mouth.)

"'Pom,' said Pooh. 'I put that in to make it more hummy.'"

And it is that word 'hummy,' my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up.