"I tickle his neck every evening with my sharp knife, which frightens him very much."
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You know the scene in Animal Farm where Boxer tries to learn the whole alphabet but can't get beyond the letter D no matter how he tries? Tragic and affecting in the way that a horse trying to learn to read is always tragic and affecting, but the other reason it works on me so well — it has nothing to do with the Russian revolution — is because it's so like the part of The Snow Queen when the Snow Queen says to Kay that when he can find out how to spell the word Eternity with the little shards of ice that he forms figures with, “You shall be your own master, and I will give you the whole world and a new pair of skates.” But he cannot find it out.
"I tickle his neck every evening with my sharp knife, which frightens him very much."
"I tickle his neck every evening with my…
"I tickle his neck every evening with my sharp knife, which frightens him very much."
You know the scene in Animal Farm where Boxer tries to learn the whole alphabet but can't get beyond the letter D no matter how he tries? Tragic and affecting in the way that a horse trying to learn to read is always tragic and affecting, but the other reason it works on me so well — it has nothing to do with the Russian revolution — is because it's so like the part of The Snow Queen when the Snow Queen says to Kay that when he can find out how to spell the word Eternity with the little shards of ice that he forms figures with, “You shall be your own master, and I will give you the whole world and a new pair of skates.” But he cannot find it out.