I was surprised to discover that the author of the Mary Poppins books, Pamela L. Travers intensely disliked Disneys movie version and tried to block it. I fondly remember some scenes from that movie. She co-founded Parabola magazine in 1976, a magazine I read with intense fascination when I was young. She was a serious student of George Gurdjieff, much more so then I (I just read the books). Pamela linked Mary Poppins to Mary herself - and a Catholic blogger went absolutely crazy with that idea in a fun way (seel link below). Its more likely Pamelas Mary is more akin to an Earth Goddess (Mary DeForest). More reading material on Pamela L. Travers: * Documentaries: youtube/playlist?list=PLg_O3072fDaPbUw1mjqqIriU32MqZkXjc * Mary Poppins Goes to Hell. Pamela Travers, Gurdjieff, and the Rhetoric of Fundamentalism cesnur.org/testi/marypoppins.htm * What Bee Knows artdurkee.blogspot.nl/2008/04/what-bee-knows.html * Mary Poppins and the Great Mother, Classical and Modem Literature, II (1991), 139-54. * Mary Poppins and the Blessed Virgin Mary vestalmorons.wordpress/2012/02/27/mary-poppins-and-the-blessed-virgin-mary/
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