Mr String

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Now it must be pointed out that Cologne is to the south of where we live and Rheine is way way north. I don't know, I don't know, I don't knowwwww. The more deeply a book touches me, the less I know how to say anything about it. My reaction to this book is kind of like how I feel when I look at the moon; I'm full of all these senseless impulses, I want to eat it, I want to breathe it. It should be cool and bright in my mouth. Every word is luminous and strange and wonderful. I want everyone in the world to read it and love it like I do and talk about it so I can consume all their thoughts, too. The similarities between Mr. String and Earthworm Jim are striking. Both are essentially worm-like creatures and have high voices. Hahh.. cold cereal. But what if it's too cold? Then my teeth will chatter like a chipmunk! And I'll have to live in a tree, and store nuts for the winter! And who wants to spend all winter living in a tree with a bunch of nuts! No! I changed my mind again! I'll have hot cereal! No, I'll have cold... no, hot! Cold! Hot! Cold! Hot, cold, hot, cold, hot, cold!

Oh, this is just like looking in a mirror. (The worm starts to move) I can do that! (He moves by the side of the worm) It's like walking next to a mirror. Mirror, mirror, mirror, whoopie! This is terribly, terribly, fun, but I'm getting dizzy! Bob (off-screen): Starring... Mop, Mr. String, The Shoe Family, Doris the Door, Little Cup, Plush, Pad and Pencil, and me, Bob the Ball! Today, we're a little curious about.. Long, Short, and Roll! The story of this love triangle is told in a series of short stories, vignettes, fairy tales, letters, and narratives by the three characters and jumbled together in a blender of sorts so that the reader must be on the very tip-top of their game to keep it all straight. It was very A Visit from a Goon Squad-ish but even more confusing. Stories would abruptly end and one of the characters would start talking and half the time I wouldn’t know what was going on. Plush walks into a yard and spots a large apple tree. He sees an apple high in the tree and leaps up to get it, failing most of the time. So he shakes the tree around and then uses his ears to extend himself up to the apple, but he ends up twisting himself when he tries to pull the apple off. Eventually, a whole mountain of apples falls down from the tree, and he eats one. String can transform and turn himself into all kinds of different things, even some of the characters. However, it seems that he has trouble transforming into circular objects, such as a ring. In Don't Bump Into That, it is shown he has a passion for art, as the short takes place in what might be his potential art studio, where he is painting a picture of Mop similarly to the style of Andy Warhol.Mr. Shoe: We're still young, at heart! (Spins Mrs. Shoe around) Long, long, short short short. Step, step, and cha cha cha. Mr. String – a nervous, intelligent, fussy bit of blue string who can twist and tie himself into a multitude of shapes. He frequently says "definitely".

Mr. String: Yikes! The Shoe Family can slip on this slippery floor, and never, ever, ever, get to the circus. The elephants will be sad, no one will eat all the peanuts and cotton candy and stuff, then the tent will fill up and fall down. Oh boy, I have to warn them! Look out... no, no, no.. uh, watch it... no no no.. uh, caution, this floor is slippery, that's it! Caution, this floor is... Pad: Why anyone, would fall for you. (Open up to the two at a table) In olden days, we ate at night, on tables lit by candlelight. Bob (off-screen): Starring... Mop, Mr. String, The Shoe Family, Doris the Door, Little Cup, Plush, Pad and Pencil, and me, Bob the Ball! Today, we're a little curious about.. Hard, Easy, and Change!

Mary Jane (singing): There may be something that's hard for me, but for you, it's so easy. Then something else is for easy for me, but for you may be hard to do. It's different... everybody is different... This was only my second foray into the weird and wonderful mind of Oyeyemi, but I enjoyed it thoroughly! I know she polarises readers, but so far both White is For Witching and Mr Fox have been great reading experiences. Mr Fox isn't quite as dark as White is For Witching, although it does have a main character who can't seem to stop killing his fictional wives...

Additionally, a deleted scene for Slippery When Wet where Pad and Pencil dance across the hall is used for the HBO Family promo intro for Non-HBO Family channels. Mr. String: Oooh, boy, an inchworm! Hah, inchworms are definitely, definitely, curious. They stretch, and they wiggle, and they waggle, and they squirm all day long, and never, ever, tangle into a knot. Oh, I think I'll be a worm! (He turns into a tornado) Wait up, wormie! Roll you rolling master, roll a little faster, (Plush runs on screen), keep on rolling to the end of the song! I know this tells you absolutely nothing about what this book was about. How am I supposed to convince people to read it? I just don't even know how to talk about it. It was a novel, and it was also a collection of short stories, and it was about a lot of things like love and creativity and muses and Bluebeard and the nastiness (and laziness) of the tradition of killing off heroines for dramatic impact. It was also wonderful, and you should all read it and talk about it so I can eat your thoughts.

Mr Strings’ World Tour

Tales of foxes are repeated and repeated, but they’re not repetitive, and they’re illustrative of different permutations and outcomes. At first I wasn’t sure what was going on with Mary Foxe and St John Fox, the names so similar but the two seemingly unknown to each other. It didn’t take long to get my bearings and eventually discover who is creating whom, and why; how such creations can follow you through your life like an imaginary friend, sustaining you through dark times, including—appropriately enough—in a foxhole. When the creation becomes more real than the person one lives with, the story shows the characters buying into the other's fabrication and resolving the created distance. Mr. String is a good friend of Bob and his pals, and could be best friends with Mop as the two are typically seen together in various shorts. It could be even theorized that String shows infatuation for her, one example being when she kisses him in Short Cut, he faints to the ground. While overall a generous friend, Mr. String is very paranoiac and worries that the littlest of actions can lead to big consequences, such as eating cold cereal would cause him to spend the winter storing nuts in a tree as a chipmunk. Pencil: In olden days, twas hard, amie, to stay sharp as I could be. (Hops into pencil sharpener that Pad cranks)