Groaner

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(brought to you by the endpaper art in Richard Scarry's Busy, Busy World)

In which I find out I am a grown-up

I reread Stuart Little. It was never a favorite (too episodic, and a story that ends without finishing), but it also made me realize I'm a grown-up: it starts with Mrs. Little giving birth to her mouse-baby Stuart, and that totally threw me out of the story this time. I mean, here's Mrs. Little with her presumably-normal pregnancy, and she ends out with a mouse-baby?! She gained weight like a regular person, or she wouldn't have known she was pregnant (the whole "baby instead of stomachache" sort of thing). And yes, it's before regular ultrasounds (or ultrasounds at all?), so it's a little less weird, but still. What happened to all that extra weight she gained? And you'd think it wouldn't take a whole nine months to grow that small a person. And while presumably it's a lot more comfortable having a 4-inch kid (presumably smaller than the penis that started the process), how did they not miss such a small being in the rush of other stuff? Why didn't she freak out? She didn't get anything like the baby she expected, and apparently her husband's been in some weird-ass experiments, 'cause how else do two regular humans generate a mouse-baby? I wonder if he mentioned being in some strange medical trial? And so on.

My eyes passed over the next couple of chapters, but I couldn't keep off the whole ball of questions I kept turning over and over in my mind.