![]() But even more notable to me was an episode in the book that I’ve returned to in my mind again and again over the years, ever since I first read it: the chapter in which Stuart goes on a blind date. ![]() A woman giving birth to a mouse - how could that come to be? What would that look like? I couldn’t, as they say, help but wonder. But even when I was an 8-year-old with a still primitive grasp of the facts of life, my mind kept wandering back to the biology of the matter, the sheer mechanics of it. It’s true that the book’s opening lines manage to elide the cruder aspects of the situation - Stuart, a two-inch-tall baby looking “very much like a mouse in every way,” simply “arrived” to take his place as second son in the Upper West Side-dwelling Little family. White’s Stuart Little has always been odd to me, even a tad perverse.
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