Sunday, September 30, 2012

First Scenes


Hello!  If you are not familiar with The Clockwork Twin, please take a moment to review Michael Cart’s brief review of this fourth book in the Freddy series on the landing page of www.freddythepig.org.  Then join us in reading the book this fall in celebration of the 75th anniversary of its publication.  We would love to have your comments on The Clockwork Twin or anything else Freddy-related. 
This is our first attempt at a blog on Friends of Freddy.  As I read through the instructions, Google said this about getting started blogging:
“What will happen then? Who knows. It might be fun, though.”
I wonder if the person who wrote those words had ever read The Clockwork Twin? We’re going to try this experiment and see what happens. Who knows? Like Adoniram and Georgie, we may all have a lot of fun.
First Scenes.  Do you have a favorite first scene in Freddy?
The Clockwork Twin begins with one of the best scenes in all of Freddy: Adoniram and Georgie, the little brown dog, are floating down a flooded river in a small outbuilding. They have no food and they are too far away from shore to be rescued. Under these trying circumstances, it is not surprising that Adoniram begins to worry. Georgie, on the other hand, assumes a more insouciant air.
“’Isn’t this fun?’ said Georgie.
‘Why –yes,’ said Adoniram. ‘Only I can’t help thinking about–‘
‘About all the awful things that may happen–is that it?’ asked the dog. ‘Well, why don’t you think about how maybe they won’t happen? Why don’t you think about nice things that may happen? It doesn’t cost any more. Maybe we will be carried out to sea. But then, maybe we’ll be rescued by a warship or an ocean liner, and live on it, and maybe you’ll learn how to run it, and maybe when you grow up you’ll be captain.’
‘Oh, could I?’ asked Adoniram.
‘How do I know?’ said Georgie, ‘But one thing’s certain: there are hundreds of boys our age that are going to be sea captains some day and don’t know it. Maybe you’re one of them.’”



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