#rsrh Do you know why people like Maurice Sendak get to fantasize about mass murder?

Because people like Gary Groth let them.

SENDAK: Bush was president, I thought, “Be brave. Tie a bomb to your shirt. Insist on going to the White House. And I wanna have a big hug with the vice president, definitely. And his wife, and the president, and his wife, and anybody else that can fit into the love hug.”

GROTH: A group hug.

SENDAK: And then we’ll blow ourselves up, and I’d be a hero. [Groth laughs.] To hell with the kiddie books. He killed Bush. He killed the vice president. Oh my God.

GROTH: I would have been willing to forgo this interview. [Sendak laughs.]

Now, if you’ll excuse me: I have to go throw out my kids’ copy of Where The Wild Things Are.  And never, ever tell my mother that one of her favorite children’s authors dreamed of murdering women.

Moe Lane

10 thoughts on “#rsrh Do you know why people like Maurice Sendak get to fantasize about mass murder?”

  1. Never liked the book, the movie is un-watchable.

    I will file both next to “Rainbow Fish”…. in the “kindling” box.

    Mew

  2. This saddens me more than anything!

    I hate when beloved childhood memories are dashed because people can’t keep politics out of it… Jerks!

  3. Note: They want to kill by treachery not just the President and the Vice- their political opponents- , but their wives too. They fantasize about it.
    This is the enemy, folks.

  4. Having such a fantasy is perverse. Cheerleading such a fantasy is unimaginable in its perversity. There is a chasm between the left and the right and this defines it.

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