am-i-rintintin2 - The Monday Morning Memo

I Did Not Make It Up.

In paragraph two of her review of
Susan Orlean’s New York Times bestseller,
Rin Tin Tin: The Life and The Legend,
(Oct. 20, 2011, New York Times Sunday Book Review,)
writer Jennifer Schuessler made the suggestion that
Rinny may belong on Rushmore with George and the Tedster.

“Don’t let the book’s title fool you.
Calling Rin Tin Tin the story of a dog
is like calling Moby Dick the story of a whale.”
– Meredith Maran, The Boston Globe

Rin Tin Tin first came to television in October, 1954.
There were 166 episodes filmed from 1954 to 1959.

“I was bribed into loving John Donne. My parents pinned poetry on the bathroom wall next to the sink where my siblings and I brushed our teeth and paid us for each poem we memorized. I was a mercenary child, with expensive taste in small plastic dog figurines; the exchange rate was roughly four poems per dog, and so I learned a great deal of Donne. I learned, not realizing it at the time, some of the finest love poetry ever written in the English language.

I did not wholly understand the poems, but I understood that I loved them, for the way their vividness took root. And I know now that the poetry you learn as a child comes back to you as an adult. Two and a half decades later, I’m a fellow of All Souls College in Oxford, and I think that much of what attracted me to Donne was his insistence on our strangeness.”

- Katherine Rundell, Sept 10, 2022

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