[UA] Darkening Children's Tales

[James McGraw]

>>> mrteapot at disinfo.net 02/13/01 01:15pm >>>
>>Actually most modern children's stories go the other way.  Each of the
>>national book councils has recently complained that for some reason
>>publishing houses are churning out teen angst filled with manipulative,
>>ineffective pschyoterapists.  Thank God for Harry Potter...  Can you be a
>>character in a modern children's novel and have well-adjusted, present
>>parents who you like?  No, you can't.  If you go through the children's
>>bestsellers for the last three years, everyone's parents are mad, dead,
>>divorcing or piously conservative.  
>
>Try naming a Disney movie where the main character has both parents.  >Most are orphans or missing a parent (typically the mother), often for >unexplained reasons.  

Ditto Harry Potter and Roald Dahl.

james
"Touched by her fingers, the two surviving chocolate
people copulate desperately, losing themselves in a 
melting frenzy of lust, spending the last of their brief 
borrowed lives in a spasm of raspberry cream and 
fear"        Neil Gaiman, Brief Lives


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