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Punctuation is an adult thing. This is evident in the breathless, tumbling dice style of storytelling that belongs to children. I remember proudly finishing my first short story ever in the first grade: it had plot, dialogue and a twist! (Yes, I was quite the Margot Tenenbaum--minus the eyeliner and creepy brotherly love.) I even folded the pages and stapled it to mimic grownupped-ness. My teacher ruthlessly crushed my aspirations by pointing out that it was just one loooooooooong run on sentence with a solitary period. Humiliated, I vowed never again to be that grammatically exposed.Thank Miles Davis for Kay Thompson. Thompson nails that exuberant loquaciousness, which sticks to impressions and ignores veracity. I find that kids, rappers, and foreigners are the best smashers and innovators of tired language. Eloises personal vocabulary contains skibble, granning and, my favorite, sklathe. I interpret it as a verb connoting an extreme, ele-gawnt way of positioning your body, probably prone. Pas de quoi, its delicious to say, especially when you want to bumfuddle someone. Plenty of French phrases fall off Eloises tongue; she translates for you, and shes mostly accurate. Again, her style triumphs over narrow fidelity of meaning. Thompsons text is delightfully coupled with Hilary Knights drawings. The curvy, trembly lines fit Eloises dash and dart style very well as she, Nanny, Weenie and Skipperdee skibble over Paris. In the Plaza, Eloises world is white, black and pink. Knight smartly distinguishes this book from New York by introducing blue as Paris thematic color. (I have a small quibble: the original editions staunch blue is blanched to an insipid pastel in the modern reprint. Pas daccord!) The pink that is she ELOISE manifests itself still in her signature bow and other totems integral to her personality.I liked how cultural differences were presented in the story. However, this book was originally sold in 1957, so the European hotel deprivations Americans sometimes bewail might have disappeared from contemporary travel. Not that Eloise complains or sulks when confronted by a lackadaisical room service (possibly non-existent). She just sends a cablegram to her beloved Plaza to send up the jellybeans and Johnny Walker Blacks (no pitch fits, sil vous plait, the liquor is for Nanny). Eloises travelogue might be a bit cliche 53 years later. I dont know how authentic or tempting stops to Fouquets or Aux Deux Magots are nowadays. Im pretty sure Maxims was featured in SATC, and that cant be good. However, Eloise cruised the flea market just as I would, and Carrie Bradshaw aside, The Eiffel Tower, Dior, and the Louvre are as eternal as the city in which they reside.All in all, cest tres charmant et positively pas de trop! In my opinion, me TRACY.
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