It's hard not to immediately associate to the first time we meet Winnie The
Pooh as he comes down the stairs:
A Google search on "it is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs" brings up over 350 hits. Some of these come from copies of the text itself, some are introductory pages to various Pooh fan sites. But from what I can see quite a few of them relate to this particular text as a jumping off point for creative thinking - maybe Pooh can't think of any other way of doing something, but we should be able to. And if in that way this bear of very little brain contributes to our creativity, he deserves our thanks.
Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop that bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't. Anyhow, here he is at the bottom, and ready to be introduced to you. Winnie-the-Pooh.
