Santa Claus by Gerry Bowler

Author:Gerry Bowler
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781551996080
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 2007-11-12T21:00:00+00:00

* See Molly Rockwell, ed., Norman Rockwell’s Christmas Book (New York: 1977); Karal Ann Marling says that Leyendecker’s Santa Claus was “as important to defining St. Nick’s twentieth-century appearance as Thomas Nast’s were to fixing his nineteenth-century attributes.” Merry Christmas!: Celebrating America’s Greatest Holiday (Cambridge MA: 2000), p. 37.

* So Santa Claus is “everybody”? Perhaps, but the illustration accompanying this insurance ad is even more mystifying: the Santa Claus depicted there is someone rather extraordinary: he has an odd number of legs. Count the number of left and right footprints in the snow leading to the chimney and note too that while there are tracks leading into the chimney, there are none exiting it. Presumably, Santa is still in the house.

* Rudolph is not the only one of Santa’s reindeer with gender identity problems. Though his team of Dasher and Dancer, et al., may have aggressive, male-sounding names (well, maybe not Prancer; or Vixen, come to that), male reindeer shed their antlers around Christmastime so the animals pulling the sleigh are likely females or castrati. Roger Highfield, The Physics of Christmas (Boston: 1998), pp. 25–27.

* Norwegian scientists have stated that Rudolph’s nasal discolouration is probably the result of a parasitic infection of his respiratory system. Highfield, The Physics of Christmas, p. 24.

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