random things from ilya

"Horton Hears a Who, by Dr. Seuss, tells the story of an elephant who hears a (actually, several) “Whos” — microscopic beings on a small speck of dust floating by through the air. The problem is that no one else in the Jungle of Nool can hear the Whos, and thus no one believes Horton’s claims that Whos exist. In part to restore the peace, and in part to save Horton from his own purported delusions, the residents of Nool decide to dunk the dust-speck in a boiling hot pot of beezel-nut oil. The Whos are only saved when they shout loud enough so that they are heard by their would-be killers.

So, it’s correct to say that Horton is about genocide."