On Dec 22, 12:34 pm, myriadsmallcreature
I suppose it would be interesting to read the book after so many
years. Might be fun to listen to it as an audio book. After seeing
the film for the third time the week if release, the novel (which I
read before the film and enjoyed) left my mind completely.
An old forum thread here decides it was his Middle name Anthony,
supposedly mentioned in the book.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-70886.html
But why would Jack say ""No," Jack said. "Should we?"
"Why bother? Let him realize it in his own time, by his own logic."?
I suspect this was a personal , idiopathic reference from King. Would
it be a literary reference?
Someone might throw this idea out and ask why...what secret and
arcane, psychosexual meaning this might have? No doubt some
nefarious pedophile Was it an "Uncle Tony"? Did King have an "Uncle
Tony"?
Or did it come from Cartoons?
I have no idea. I had Cecil of "Beany and Cecil" living under my
head board...I assumed it was "Cecil" the reptilian anyway.,,,
This had a huge impact on me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXCCQK1DMCk
This too.. especially Cecil's eyes...those oblong, grey, reptilian
eyes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfKR7jzh7p8
http://www.tvacres.com/reptiles_serpents_time.htm
"Captain: You say you saw a singing Sea Sick Sea Serpent named Cecil?
I can't even say it. How could I see it? Beany, you know there's no
such thing as a sea serpent and I'm ashamed of you for telling an
untruth.
Beany: Its' the truth, Uncle Captain Huffenpuff. If I didn't see a Sea
Serpent may lightning strike me.
Captain: And I say there was no Sea Serpent! [Lightning strikes
Captain] EEEEEEeeeeeyyyyyyyy!
Beany: See?
--Time for Beany
TRIVIA NOTE: Originally entitled TIME FOR BEANY, the program first
premiered on KTLA-TV in Los Angeles on February 1949.
Daws Butler and Stan Freberg performed both the voices and puppetry
on the show.
Daws' wife, Myrtis designed and sewed the first Cecil puppet from
their son's green pajama leg.
Daws and Stan were on the show Monday through Friday, from 6:30 to
6:45 pm, 52 weeks a year, for five years. For all their hard work and
talent, they earned three Emmy Awards.
The Cecil character was inspired by the pre-historic dinosaurs that
animator Bob Clampett had remembered from the 1920's silent film
feature Lost World."