Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see

A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.

Promise you won't forget me, ever. Not even when I'm a hundred.

That's right," said Eeyore. "Sing. Umty-tiddly, umty-too. Here we go gathering Nuts and May. Enjoy yourself." "I am," said Pooh.

This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.

So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.