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"Gary Larsen, the creator of the "Far Side" comic strip, has written and illustrated a hilarious satire on naïve and ignorant, but well-meaning, ecologists. “There's A Hair In My Dirt” resembles a children's picture book, but its acerbic wit is anything but childlike. When a young earthworm complains that there is a hair in his plate of dirt, his father tells him how it came to be there. A rather dull-witted, middle-age woman with good intentions used to take frequent hikes through the forest, always ready to lend what she thought was a helping hand to animals that seemed to be in danger. All that her assistance did was to create problems where none existed before or make bad situations worse. Ironically, one of her good deeds finally kills her, and it is a hair from her corpse that the young earthworm has found in his dirt. The book contains many visual jokes, both in the main illustrations and in smaller drawings that are hidden, so to speak, in the intricacies of the forest foliage and vegetation or that are tucked away in the pictures' backgrounds or in the pages' margins. "
Gary Pullman, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book?
- humorous
Time/era of story
- 1980's-1999
Animal story
Yes
Kind of animal:
- a bug
Main Character
Gender
- Male
Age:
- a kid
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- healthy but a geeky weakling
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- homemaker
Eccentric/Smart/Dumb:
Yes
Eccentric:
- dumb
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- an average amount
How sensitive is this character?
- soggy whimpering jelly muffin
Intelligence
- Dumb
Physique
- quite fatty
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 7 ()
United States
Yes
Forest?
Yes
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- explicit references to deaths
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references
- impregnation/reproduction
Amount of dialog
- mostly dialog
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