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Originally Posted by Panuru
...If you look at the Moomins from this perspective, they definitely have a "disturbing" feel to them...
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For me, I guess it has a lot to do with growing up with Winnie the Pooh, too, by way of comparison. Whereas that seems very normal and happy to me (for the most part), the Moomins has an air of darkness. Then again, I did cry after reading the last Pooh story as a child and it still makes me sad today, it conjured sadness in me at an early age and probably created and informed my sense of melancholy that I can seem to carry with me. Just look at Eeyore too, though he was never really tragic, merely disaffected. Hmm. How odd! I wonder if anybody has ever carried out a study in to the effect of different stories on the later-lives of children.
It feels quite odd to be talking of childhood as if it was a long time ago too. I can't believe I'm now twenty three...