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In the night kitchen 19706/22/2023 ![]() ![]() It reduced a book I had worked on for more than three years to nothing more than sheer idiocy. ![]() This abuse of Mickey’s privates outraged me. Worth a giggle, I suppose, though I never saw the humor in the situation. It’s easy to imagine curious children holding the book up to the light and tracing out the obvious. In some cases (I have a number of copies smuggled out to me by embarrassed librarians), his quaint quickie briefs are downright kinky. So they diapered, draped and frilled him out with magic marker and paint brush. ![]() In the fall of 1970, when my hero Mickey slipped out of his clothes and into cake batter in “In the Night Kitchen,” a critic peevishly queried: “Why couldn’t Mickey have at least kept his underpants on?” Apparently, this critic had never dreamt himself naked-and thereby lies a tale.Īs it turned out, quite a few librarians across the country preferred Mickey Fruit-of-the-Loomed his raw condition struck a raw nerve and they self-righteously concluded that Mickey must be cleaned up. ![]()
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