The Orpahn-O-Meter, among other things

So, this blog is on Mouse Under Glass (Koenig) again. It's a very entertaining book, as evidenced by the fact that I haven't been reading my for-fun fiction book since I started it. Before I get to the main event (the Orphan-O-Meter), I'm just going to write about 2 things from the book so far (unless I think of other things...)

1) Do you know why Captain Hook doesn't have a hand? Apparently, in the original book, Peter Pan cut off Captain Hook's hand (I don't remember what his name was before...) and fed it to the crocodile.

2) I just found the following quote hilarious. It's from Koenig's "Top 10 Disney Oddities" #8, where he talks about parents & guardians in Disney movies. He writes, "Whereas in real life the goal of Child Services is to place the parentless with the best possible parents, Disney orphans are invariably adopted by the most overbearing, degenerate psychopath in town. Mowgli fared better than most; he was taken in by wolves" (p110-11).

So here are scans from the book (pages 158 & 159). Click on them to expand them and hopefully make each scan easier to read. It's quite enjoyable, I promise. My favorites are probably #3,8, 10, & 12...