The oddest things sometimes bug me. Does anyone else remember a children’s book which mentions eating “roast beast”?
Update. One reader (see, this is how I smoke you out) points it out in How the Grinch Stole Christmas. I feel that the thing tickling at the back door of my mind is in prose; something between Winnie the Pooh and Fractured Fairy Tales — but maybe that’s just neural interference from the Questing Beast of The Once and Future King.