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Rolf Myller ~ Atheneum, 1963
I still can't get over the awesomeness of Koko this morning... but I digress.
Architect turned children's book illustrator (turned sex guide author?) Myller takes us on a fabled journey through a kingdom where the wheel is concocted with some design savvy and a little trial and error....
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there lived a king and his friend,
the horse named Hildegard.
The king loved Hildegard very much.
At least once a month
he would ride with her to the end of the kingdom
to keep the people there from becoming
restless and unhappy.
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Obviously, the author had some beef with the places the invention of the wheel has taken us as the dedication reads:
To vehicular locomotion
traffic jams
and all other urban problems
which were made possible by the events in this book.
A little preamble to road rage, perhaps? Here, here.
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