The Velveteen Rabbit |
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Description: Jethro reading from one of the greatest children's books of all time in preparation for an upcoming wedding-- and he's dressed all fancy-schmancy! The entire excerpt is below. He brought us the dangley-doo: http://www.youtube.com/TheDanc1nghawk THE ROBOCRACY WANTS YOU!: Send me (IJethrobot at gmail dot com) a video response of you saying your username or other name with "-bot" at the end. Use your best robot voice-- no human voices allowed! Extra points for robot-like activities. I recommend SendSpace.com to upload. ---------------- Excerpt from Margery Williams' "The Velveteen Rabbit": "What is REAL?" asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. "Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?" "Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but Really loves you, then you become Real." "Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit. "Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt." "Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or bit by bit?" "It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get all loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." ---------------- Other Jethro-ly places-- TWITTER: http://www.twitter.com/ijethrobot DAILYBOOTH: http://www.dailybooth.com/ijethrobot Music by Spin-Off, with permission: Intro: "Atlantic Slide" sped up. Outro: "Traw's Song" 
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