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After the wash-out of last week, where the effects of the chemo took ages to pass, I felt up to several hours in the bookshop today. The Gruffalo was pleased to see me back.
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#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #Gruffalo #selfie #bookshop #librairie
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After the wash-out of last week, where the effects of the chemo took ages to pass, I felt up to several hours in the bookshop today. The Gruffalo was pleased to see me back.
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#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #Gruffalo #selfie #bookshop #librairie
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After the wash-out of last week, where the effects of the chemo took ages to pass, I felt up to several hours in the bookshop today. The Gruffalo was pleased to see me back.
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#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #Gruffalo #selfie #bookshop #librairie
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After the wash-out of last week, where the effects of the chemo took ages to pass, I felt up to several hours in the bookshop today. The Gruffalo was pleased to see me back.
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#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #Gruffalo #selfie #bookshop #librairie
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After the wash-out of last week, where the effects of the chemo took ages to pass, I felt up to several hours in the bookshop today. The Gruffalo was pleased to see me back.
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#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #Gruffalo #selfie #bookshop #librairie
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Aha aho, crap in the flow, whose is this crap and where does it go[1]?
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From: %MPOW HR Portal <[email protected]>[1] with apologies to Julia Donaldson and the #gruffalo
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Aha aho, crap in the flow, whose is this crap and where does it go[1]?
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From: %MPOW HR Portal <[email protected]>[1] with apologies to Julia Donaldson and the #gruffalo
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@wovenmatter aha! Oho! Tracks in the snow! Whose are these footprints, and where do they go? With thanks/apologies to #juliaDonaldson #gruffalo
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@wovenmatter aha! Oho! Tracks in the snow! Whose are these footprints, and where do they go? With thanks/apologies to #juliaDonaldson #gruffalo
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🚨 BEHOLD: Jamie Lawrence bravely unveils the shocking revelation that *gasp* humans are the real monsters, just like that groundbreaking children's book, The #Gruffalo. 😱 But don't worry, AI isn't coming for us yet—because it totally couldn't, right? 😂👾
https://jamie.ideasasylum.com/2025/10/15/you-are-the-scariest-monster-in-the-woods #humansaremankind #monstersrevealed #AIconcerns #parallels #JamieLawrence #HackerNews #ngated -
🚨 BEHOLD: Jamie Lawrence bravely unveils the shocking revelation that *gasp* humans are the real monsters, just like that groundbreaking children's book, The #Gruffalo. 😱 But don't worry, AI isn't coming for us yet—because it totally couldn't, right? 😂👾
https://jamie.ideasasylum.com/2025/10/15/you-are-the-scariest-monster-in-the-woods #humansaremankind #monstersrevealed #AIconcerns #parallels #JamieLawrence #HackerNews #ngated -
🚨 BEHOLD: Jamie Lawrence bravely unveils the shocking revelation that *gasp* humans are the real monsters, just like that groundbreaking children's book, The #Gruffalo. 😱 But don't worry, AI isn't coming for us yet—because it totally couldn't, right? 😂👾
https://jamie.ideasasylum.com/2025/10/15/you-are-the-scariest-monster-in-the-woods #humansaremankind #monstersrevealed #AIconcerns #parallels #JamieLawrence #HackerNews #ngated -
🚨 BEHOLD: Jamie Lawrence bravely unveils the shocking revelation that *gasp* humans are the real monsters, just like that groundbreaking children's book, The #Gruffalo. 😱 But don't worry, AI isn't coming for us yet—because it totally couldn't, right? 😂👾
https://jamie.ideasasylum.com/2025/10/15/you-are-the-scariest-monster-in-the-woods #humansaremankind #monstersrevealed #AIconcerns #parallels #JamieLawrence #HackerNews #ngated -
With apologies to the #gruffalo,
aha oho, crap now on show / whose is this crap / and where should it go?
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Goodness me, looks like today has been too strenuous for the poor G-Man... Storytime does take it out of the old chap
#books #livres #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #bookshops #librairies #Gruffalo
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Goodness me, looks like today has been too strenuous for the poor G-Man... Storytime does take it out of the old chap
#books #livres #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #bookshops #librairies #Gruffalo
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Interesting day spent in Carmarthenshire visiting the Rebecca Riots sculpture made from a 120 year old cedar trunk and the National Botanic Gardens. #RebeccaRiots #Becca #Riots #StClears #Llanarthne #Carmarthenshire #GardenOfWales #Cedar #Sculpture #Gruffalo #Selfie #Sunday
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Interesting day spent in Carmarthenshire visiting the Rebecca Riots sculpture made from a 120 year old cedar trunk and the National Botanic Gardens. #RebeccaRiots #Becca #Riots #StClears #Llanarthne #Carmarthenshire #GardenOfWales #Cedar #Sculpture #Gruffalo #Selfie #Sunday
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Interesting day spent in Carmarthenshire visiting the Rebecca Riots sculpture made from a 120 year old cedar trunk and the National Botanic Gardens. #RebeccaRiots #Becca #Riots #StClears #Llanarthne #Carmarthenshire #GardenOfWales #Cedar #Sculpture #Gruffalo #Selfie #Sunday
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Interesting day spent in Carmarthenshire visiting the Rebecca Riots sculpture made from a 120 year old cedar trunk and the National Botanic Gardens. #RebeccaRiots #Becca #Riots #StClears #Llanarthne #Carmarthenshire #GardenOfWales #Cedar #Sculpture #Gruffalo #Selfie #Sunday
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Interesting day spent in Carmarthenshire visiting the Rebecca Riots sculpture made from a 120 year old cedar trunk and the National Botanic Gardens. #RebeccaRiots #Becca #Riots #StClears #Llanarthne #Carmarthenshire #GardenOfWales #Cedar #Sculpture #Gruffalo #Selfie #Sunday
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End of a busy Saturday in the bookshop, everyone is tired. Although after a nap these three transform into party animals on a Saturday night
#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #Photographie #teddy #teddybear #Gruffalo #PeterRabbit #HuglessDouglas #cuddlytoy #bookshops #librairies #Bruntsfield #Saturday #books #livres
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End of a busy Saturday in the bookshop, everyone is tired. Although after a nap these three transform into party animals on a Saturday night
#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #Photographie #teddy #teddybear #Gruffalo #PeterRabbit #HuglessDouglas #cuddlytoy #bookshops #librairies #Bruntsfield #Saturday #books #livres
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End of a busy Saturday in the bookshop, everyone is tired. Although after a nap these three transform into party animals on a Saturday night
#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #Photographie #teddy #teddybear #Gruffalo #PeterRabbit #HuglessDouglas #cuddlytoy #bookshops #librairies #Bruntsfield #Saturday #books #livres
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End of a busy Saturday in the bookshop, everyone is tired. Although after a nap these three transform into party animals on a Saturday night
#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #Photographie #teddy #teddybear #Gruffalo #PeterRabbit #HuglessDouglas #cuddlytoy #bookshops #librairies #Bruntsfield #Saturday #books #livres
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End of a busy Saturday in the bookshop, everyone is tired. Although after a nap these three transform into party animals on a Saturday night
#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #Photographie #teddy #teddybear #Gruffalo #PeterRabbit #HuglessDouglas #cuddlytoy #bookshops #librairies #Bruntsfield #Saturday #books #livres
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"Your call is important to us, please continue to hold ..."
#bookshops #librairies #photography #photographie #books #livres #PeterRabbit #HuglessDouglas #Gruffalo
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"Your call is important to us, please continue to hold ..."
#bookshops #librairies #photography #photographie #books #livres #PeterRabbit #HuglessDouglas #Gruffalo
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"Your call is important to us, please continue to hold ..."
#bookshops #librairies #photography #photographie #books #livres #PeterRabbit #HuglessDouglas #Gruffalo
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"Your call is important to us, please continue to hold ..."
#bookshops #librairies #photography #photographie #books #livres #PeterRabbit #HuglessDouglas #Gruffalo
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"Your call is important to us, please continue to hold ..."
#bookshops #librairies #photography #photographie #books #livres #PeterRabbit #HuglessDouglas #Gruffalo
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Taken this day, 2023, "oh help, oh no, it's a Gruffalo!!!" https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/52771152780/
Children's book royalty at the @TheEdinburghBookshop !
#books #livres #Bruntsfield #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #Gruffalo #bookstodon #ChildrensBooks #LivresJeunesse
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Taken this day, 2023, "oh help, oh no, it's a Gruffalo!!!" https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/52771152780/
Children's book royalty at the @TheEdinburghBookshop !
#books #livres #Bruntsfield #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #Gruffalo #bookstodon #ChildrensBooks #LivresJeunesse
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Has anyone considered running “The Gruffalo” as a D&D campaign?
The mouse is clearly an innate sorcerer that does not understand its magical powers but can accidentally cast Major Image with a set of characteristics that prey upon its mind.
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"'The #Gruffalo' does not go down well at the conspiracy theorist book club", #TomGauld knows. :)
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"'The #Gruffalo' does not go down well at the conspiracy theorist book club", #TomGauld knows. :)
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End of a busy bookselling day, time to put the feet up.
#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #books #livres #Bruntsfield #bookshops #librairies #Gruffalo #HuglessDouglas
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End of a busy bookselling day, time to put the feet up.
#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #books #livres #Bruntsfield #bookshops #librairies #Gruffalo #HuglessDouglas
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“The Gruffalo” as Western anti-collectivist libertarian propaganda
The correct, even obligatory place in society for an individual is inside a larger animal’s stomach:
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Donaldson has said that the story of The Gruffalo was inspired by a Chinese folk tale known as “The Fox that Borrows the Terror of a Tiger” (????).The folk tale is about a hungry tiger who tries to catch a fox. The fox is clever and tells the tiger that God has made the fox king of all animals. Whilst accompanying the fox, the tiger notices that other animals run away in fear. Not realising that they are actually running away from the tiger, the tiger believes that fox is indeed a feared king. Donaldson was originally going to have the beast in her book be a tiger, but was unable to think of rhymes for “tiger” so instead invented a new word—”gruffalo”.
The Taiwanese translator of The Gruffalo recommended the book for publication in Taiwanese because he noticed the story bore resemblance to the traditional tale. Teachers have used this translated book to demonstrate a modern retelling of the Chinese folk tale. In an article on the traditional Chinese translation of The Gruffalo in Taiwan, Chen-Wei Yu writes that the “resourcefulness” of the mouse in Donaldson’s story represents a Western association with “individual autonomy” and “self-achievement”, whereas the fox in the original fable is to be looked down upon because it does not accept its correct place in society nor an individual’s obligation to others. This latter interpretation of the story has led the phrase “The Fox that Borrows the Terror of a Tiger” to mean someone who makes use of another person’s power for their own gain.