MAT ABUT FUTBOL

This wealth should come to us. Their time is over.

We’ve got friends out there. They’ll come if they know there’s hope.

So why is this being spread around now?

What happened is that, in 2019, Clare Pollard published a history of children’s books titled Fierce Bad Rabbits. In the book’s section on Eric Carle, she cited the spoof interview without realizing it was, in fact, made up. And her publishers failed to do a fact-check, so it went to print as it was.

Then Eric Carle passed away 4 days ago, and someone on twitter shared this screencap from Pollard’s book to celebrate Eric Carle’s memory. And, because Pollard’s publisher didn’t do a proper fact-check, and because Paris Review’s attempt at parodying their own classism & pomposity was done so pompously that you have to stare for a moment to tell they’re joking… Eric Carle’s memory is now being celebrated, via viral tweets and tumblr posts, with a made-up quote that was written to make fun of him.