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It’s not just that, in the wise words of Helen Lewis, “ROALD DAHL CAN NEVER BE MADE NICE.”

It’s that valuable art of any kind – painting, architecture, music, and of course literature – is the fierce enemy of nice. When the latter-day forces of Orwell’s Junior Anti-Sex League get hold of Dahl or Joyce or Nabokov or Rimbaud or whoever wrote the brilliant Stupids series and try to shove their purification of it down our throats, we need to puke the whole thing up, right back in their faces.


Because only being covered in vomit, again and again, keeps the ever-eager purificationists from their task.

Margaret Soltan, February 24, 2023 11:12AM
Posted in: just plain gross

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One Response to “It’s not just that, in the wise words of Helen Lewis, “ROALD DAHL CAN NEVER BE MADE NICE.””

  1. Stephen Karlson Says:

    Respect.

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