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‘The Velveteen Rabbit’ at 100: The story behind the classic Christmas tale
- CharlesW 4y agohttps://archive.vn/8Ah5S https://archive.vn/8Ah5S
- irrational 4y agoClassic Christmas tale? Maybe I need to read it again, but I don't recall what made it a Christmas tale. Did the kid receive the toy at Christmas time?
- analog31 4y agoIn my family, whenever someone gets over an illness, someone else mentions burning the velveteen rabbit. Likewise, if someone coughs, someone else mutters "Gollum."
- 082349872349872 4y agoThe Velveteen Technology Becomes Real "It's a thing that happens to a tech. When a userbase relies on a technology for a long, long time, and someone (or even several someones) creates a greenfield replacement that fixes all the ugly bits, but no one switches due to network effects — then that tech becomes Real."
- waltbosz 4y agoI have this idea for a Perry Bible Fellowship-esque comic that presents an epilogue to the Velveteen Rabbit in which after being transformed to a real rabbit he is found by a little girl who bring him home to become a family pet. The final panel showing her and her family dead by scarlet fever.
- entropicgravity 4y agoI must have been away the day we learned of "The Velveteen Rabbit".
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- greenyoda 4y agoDiscussion from two months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33557767 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33557767