That's Not My Tiger... by Fiona WattMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
After confronting the essential poverty and meaninglessness of existence in a post modern age, a young mouse embarks on a quest to find "her tiger". Disregarding hedonism and the tawdry distractions of other lesser tigers, she demands that which neither a deracinated capitalism nor a cold and ruthless socialism can provide. This focus on the local and the particular clearly underlines the pre-modern essence of the text.
A Scrutonian voyage of discovery for the under twos.
Also chewable.
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I thought the tiger represented mans struggle with his ultimate fate ? , maybe I missed something in the reading ?
ReplyDeleteIt's an interpretation and one I know was common with early Existentialist readings of the text, particularly those which focus on the original vinyl bath book edition of the text. I think it was Beckett that said that the very nature of the text in that form, which rejected all attempts by the reader to make a mark upon it, reflected the nature of struggle in an absurd world.
ReplyDelete"Thats not my Mermaid"
ReplyDeleteAn eclectic journey of a mans descent into repetitive reading.
A good read in any case.
ReplyDeleteBest Regards,
Stokes
I can only imagine what you will make of the almost post-Freudian "That's not my pussy"...
ReplyDeleteHeh, yes! It's (not) a bunny in our household!
ReplyDeleteI feel you've overlooked the centrality of a Rawlsian interpretation that manifests the tension between the quest for the predatory instinct 'to prosper' and the threat of anihilation by that urge.
ReplyDeleteThink we maybe looking to deeply into this book ?! , perhaps just a essay on the necessity of the careful labelling of animals - big cats in particular ?
ReplyDeleteThat's not my Tiger , edited memoirs of Wittman?
ReplyDeleteWhat troubles me is the focus on ownership. The objectification of natural phenomena is one of the most catastrophic ideas we've retained from pre-modern society, and contributes directly to to the over-consumption of energy intensive resources driving climate change, species loss, and a host of other ills. Of course it isn't your tiger; the tiger, if it belongs to anyone, belongs to itself. Recognition of this basic fact is a necessary precondition to negotiating a new relationship with the planet, one that will permit the sustainable continuation of the human species.
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