Seth Abramson

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Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

Virtually every book any of us read as kids that meant a lot to us has already been lost to time completely—if they even exist in print anymore hardly anyone reads them—so the idea that changing a few words in Dahl books so that *they* can live on is a major crime is preposterous — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 18, 2023

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Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

Dahl was a bad man and there’s no one alive today unrelated to him who particularly cares about his feelings—what we care about is finding a way to have words that meant something to us continue to mean something to kids living in a very different time, and this is how that works — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 18, 2023

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And if what you got from Roald Dahl’s books was that Augustus Gloop was “fat” but not the *nearly synonymous* “enormous,” or that the Oompa Loompas were “little men” with nary a single woman among them, I’d say as a former English professor you *missed the point of what you read* — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 18, 2023