hay conejos, y conejos

Anthony Lane sobre Miss Potter, la película sobre Beatrix Potter con Renee Zellweger y Ewan McGregor:

Why, one must ask, did McGregor take the part? I can only imagine that he received the script one morning, after a late night, saw the words "Beatrix Potter", asumed that he was being offered the role of his namesake, Mr.McGregor, fancied himself in a long white beard running past cabbages with a rake, mouthing Scotch oaths at departing vermin, called his agent to accept, and went back to bed. Not until later did he realize that he would be required to utter the line, "We shall give them a bunny book to conjure with."

Only one man on earth can speak those words with a straight face, and that is Hugh Hefner.

Como no puedo enlazarlo porque el artículo aún no ha llegado a la edición digital del New Yorker, les resumo: Lane compara a Potter con Jane Austen y da a entender que, si aun viviera, ahora estaría persiguiendo a la Zellweger con un machete. Both her life as a farmer and her work as an artist were a protest against the cute.

Yo de Beatrix Potter sólo recordaba las pegatinas de conejitos que usaban las niñas de mi clase para poner su nombre en los libros. Si todo esto les ha despertado cierta curiosidad (o porque quieren a Anthony Lane tanto como yo misma) página 12 tiene una mini-biografía (también un rato endulcorada) y la Universidad de Ohio, algunos de sus cuentos más representativos.