“Salutations!” said the voice.”*
by chuckofish
Well, here we go. Ninety-one days left in the year!
It will be Christmas before we know it. Plans are full-speed ahead for 2016 at work. 2016! But the millennium was yesterday!
Well, time marches on and all that.
Today, in memory of E.B. White, who died on this day in 1985 (30 years ago!), let’s have a moment with our favorite spider Charlotte.
“Why did you do all this for me?’ he asked. ‘I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.’
‘You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what’s a life, anyway? We’re born, we live a little while, we die. A spider’s life can’t help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone’s life can stand a little of that.”
When the book was published in 1952, Eudora Welty reviewed it in the New York Times, writing, “As a piece of work it is just about perfect, and just about magical in the way it is done.” I concur.
As you know, I have a love/hate relationship with spiders, but I do love Charlotte.
And, OMG, this year marks the 50th anniversary of A Charlie Brown Christmas! So buy your commemorative Christmas stamps today!
And the Cards won the division! There is joy in Mudville again!
*Charlotte
dual personalities 
OMG I need to get those stamps! And I wanted to find the clip of Mr Bergstrom reading Charlotte’s Web but all I found was this weird video someone man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hlRyZciwbc
The internet is so strange.
Those stamps are great, and so is Charlotte’s Web!
I love everything about this post! I *definitely* want those stamps — and to reread Charlotte’s Web. I can’t remember, is there a good movie version? I seem to remember a specific Charlotte voice…
I always hear Debbie Reynolds as Charlotte when I read it. She was the voice in the 1973 version which is pretty good.