Before The Floating Opera (1957) and Gravity's Rainbow (1973) the metanarrative was already quite popular. True, the profound truths of postmodernism were not yet encased within bulky manuscripts, instead they were animated shorts, each less than ten minutes long.

A comically wrenching tale of passion on the plane, legendary animator and director Chuck Jones' adaptation of the classic children's book hides its geometry in romance, wherein the simplest forms suffer hardest for love.