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[hannjudd]

Fan animation of The Magic Pudding by artist Norman Lindsay.

Norman Lindsay - one of Australia's greatest artists - was well known for his etchings and political drawings, often depicting aristocratic and working class societies using anthropomorphised animals.

Along with many others, I believe The Magic Pudding is more than just a children's story of 'food and fighting' but an allegory about the ownership and economics of colonial Australia. Like Albert the never-ending pudding, the land that half a century later was coined 'The Lucky Country' has been seen as an imagined endless and infinite resource for whoever would desire to stake the most claim over it.

'It's all very fine,' said the Puddin' gloomily, 'singing about the joys of being penguins and pirates, but how'd you like to be a Puddin' and be eaten all day long?'

[felisitations]

I am having Thoughts about the Magic Pudding, and the crew of the Saucy Soup Tureen