Saw some mushrooms popping up along the W&OD trail the other day. I liked the pattern they made, so of course I took a photo.
But I cannot see
mushrooms on the hoof without thinking of the dancing ones in the Nutcracker
Suite part of Fantasia. So I went to YouTube to watch them again and
was startled by the racist trope. (It’s been decades since I last saw the film.)
However, it
turns out that this particular segment is “The Chinese Dance”; here’s what it
looks like as choreographed by the Mariinsky Ballet:
So I’ll stand
down.
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