![]() ![]() ![]() No doubt, The Ching of Eeyore comes next. ![]() Beneath the goofy grin one finds bared teeth, as Hoff snaps away peevishly at Confucianism (``authoritarian, No- Nonsense attitude toward life''), Christianity, feminism (``behind their antimasculine words, it's Overmasculinity as Usual''), Republicans, critics, computers-whatever raises his Taoist hackles. The trick is to ``observe, deduce, apply'' once done, the millennial ``Day of Piglet'' will arrive and human beings will once again achieve ``the state of paradise that existed before the Great Separation occurred.'' Watch out, though: All is not summer in the 100-Acre Wood. Milne, who must be groaning in his grave, likes capital letters Very Much), and the diminutive porker's adventures are the perfect means to preach, Very Lightly, about being positive and ecological and upright. Piglet, you see, is a ``Very Small Animal'' (for all his talk about smallness, Hoff, like A.A. Now, as luck would have it, Pooh's buddy Piglet turns out to be the perfect embodiment of Te, the Taoist term for virtue, which is attained through sensitivity, modesty, and smallness. In the original, as you may recall, Hoff had an Idea: that Winnie-the-Pooh could be used to explain Taoism, the ancient Chinese way of balance. If you like marshmallow laced with arsenic, it was worth the wait. ![]() Ten years later, a sequel to the runaway bestseller The Tao of Pooh. ![]()
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