I'll Eat You Up

In the movie version of Where the Wild Things Are (the IMAX experience did nothing for me), which butchers the book (which i read for the first time a week ago), Carol, with whom Max bonds the most (in the book the wild things remain nameless), thinks their king is gonna ward off sadness and loneliness and keep those evils at bay.

Not so explicit in the book, to say the least.

When Carol discovers the king does not possess those mysterious powers to restore what once brought equilibrium - essentially, resistence to change - he bawls.

I once had a king who kept my sadness and loneliness at bay. I, too, am ill-equipped to change.

Only for me the king and KW are the same person. KW = Kind Wonder