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Originally Posted by Zeke
It's not obscure to a Seuss fan, but it would be to most people. Only a few of Seuss's books have reached the level of pop-culture icon (The Cat in the Hat, The Grinch, Green Eggs and Ham, maybe the Lorax). The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins is a lot less likely to be on the radar.
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Pop-culture radar, hmmm. Don't think that had been invented yet.
In the days before the Chuck Jones
Grinch was on TV every year (from
Mulberry Street [1937] to
Fox in Socks [1965], say) they were all just Dr. Seuss books. More people would have been able to recite from
Green Eggs and Ham, most likely, but not by any sort of staggering margin.
Bartholomew and the Oobleck would have been just one of the books, not particularly more obscure than any of the others.