Oh, the wisdom of "Charlotte's Web"

From the mouth of...pigs?

Said the lamb, "...I am not interested in pigs. Pigs mean less than nothing to me."

"What do you mean, less than nothing?" replied Wilbur. "I don't think there is any such thing as less than nothing. Nothing is absolutely the limit of nothingness. It's the lowest you can go. It's the end of the line. How can something be less than nothing? If there were something that was less than nothing, then nothing would not be nothing, it would be something--even though it's just a very little bit of something. But if nothing is nothing, then nothing has nothing that is less than it is."

"Oh, be quiet!" said the lamb. "Go play by yourself!"

Even though I read this with great passion, I still don't think my kids really grasped the limits of nothingness...I got a good chuckle, though...and appreciate this great classic by E.B. White--who also wrote "Stuart Little", another classic with a few chuckle-worthy moments. You don't have to be a kid to pick 'em up...