#All-In-His-Head
No. It's about his nymphomania and beastiality-like qualities.
That has to be the most boring tale imaginable.
In the Milne books, Pooh is naive and slow-witted, but he is also friendly, thoughtful, and steadfast. Although he and his friends agree that he "has no Brain", Pooh is occasionally acknowledged to have a clever idea, usually driven by common sense. These include riding in Christopher Robin's umbrella to rescue Piglet from a flood, discovering "the North Pole" by picking it up to help fish Roo out of the river, inventing the game of Poohsticks, and getting Eeyore out of the river by dropping a large rock on one side of him to wash him towards the bank.
Pooh is also a talented poet, and the stories are frequently punctuated by his poems and "hums." Although he is humble about his slow-wittedness, he is comfortable with his creative gifts. When Owl's house blows down in a storm, trapping Pooh and Piglet and Owl inside, Pooh encourages Piglet (the only one small enough to do so) to escape and rescue them all by promising that "a respectful Pooh song" will be written about Piglet's feat. Later, Pooh muses about the creative process as he composes the song.
Pooh is very fond of food, especially "hunny" but also condensed milk and other items. When he visits friends, his desire to be offered a snack is in conflict with the impoliteness of asking too directly. Though intending to give Eeyore a pot of honey for his birthday, Pooh cannot resist eating the honey on his way to deliver the present, and so instead gives Eeyore "a useful pot to put things in". When he and Piglet are lost in the forest during Rabbit's attempt to "unbounce" Tigger, Pooh finds his way home by following the "call" of the honeypots from his house. Pooh makes it a habit to have "a little something" around eleven o'clock in the morning. As the clock in his house "stopped at five minutes to eleven some weeks ago," any time can be Pooh's snack time.
Pooh is very social. After Christopher Robin, his closest friend is Piglet, and he most often chooses to spend his time with one or both of them. But he also habitually visits the other animals, often looking for a snack or an audience for his poetry as much as for companionship. His kind-heartedness means he goes out of his way to be friendly to Eeyore, visiting him and bringing him a birthday present and building him a house, despite receiving mostly disdain from Eeyore in return.
Nah. I like reading those books to the kids. Just this week I made a reference to the "Hundred Acre Wood."
Recently on NPR, I heard an account about the REAL story behind the creation of the "Teddy Bear" (as you might expect, the details are brutal and depressing).
But what was interesting is how the Teddy Bear symbolized a transition in our symbolic thinking (at least in America) about bears. Prior to that time frame (early 1900s), bears were considered dangerous animals, represented symbolically as monsters in many narratives. But by the 1900s, urbanization, loss of bear habitat, depletion of numbers, and easy access to cheap reliable guns meant bears were no longer scary monsters, and the Teddy Bear epitomized their symbolic transformation from Scary Monsters to Cute Noble Creatures of the Wild.
Without that transformation, Winnie the Pooh likely would have been some other animal.
I've always enjoyed the sexual connotations of having one's head stuck in a honey pot.
Behave.
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