This animation clip just entered my brain by way of the Internet, and will probably be lodged there until I die. It's from a CGI animated movie called Strawinski and the Mysterious House, apparently based on achapter of an German audio drama, about a mole (Strawinski) and his animal friends who explore a mysterious house. It's billed as "a magical adventure inspired by the Chronicles of Narnia, Walt Disney animatedmusicals, and the parables of Jesus Christ."

One of the characters Strawinski encounters is a once-beautiful elf whose love of books turned him away from God ("The Great Elohim") and transformed him into a monstrous slug-like grotesquerie. "I am the Globglogabgalab"is his big musical number. The Rat King-and I'm going by various reviews and plot summaries here-mind-controls Strawinski's friends by tempting them to read books, and then the Scarlet Queen dissolves the books and saveseveryone. Again, I'm paraphrasing. I haven't seen the entire production.

One reviewer said this about the Globglogabgalab scene: "Oddly enough . . . it's regarded as the least strange thing going on in the movie."

I think our bibliophile readers will enjoy the idea of a warmly lit basement library full of dancing books. Less appealing is the idea of being caricatured as a fat, babbling, book-obsessed freak. But nobody ever saidbibliomania would be a stroll in the park.

Enjoy! Here's the scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1dRBWyf6z8

and here's a critique and analysis of the movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhg6oTKcmW0