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"A person is a fool to become a writer.
His only compensation is absolute freedom.
He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it."
-Roald Dahl

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He was a very creepy man.

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Contrex, was he?

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I've always enjoyed the writings of Roald Dahl. Actually he is what I read when I was learning English.
My English is still horrible, but at least people can understand me.

I love Roald Dahl's dark twisted stories. Its just me.

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Welcome to A2K, Leaka. I love Dahl's short stories, especially "Beware of the Dog." I don't see him as creepy. He wrote lots of children's stories.

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Letty wrote:

Welcome to A2K, Leaka. I love Dahl's short stories, especially "Beware of the Dog." I don't see him as creepy. He wrote lots of children's stories.

Thank you for welcoming me.

I liked Lamb to the Slaughter. That one was good.

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One of my short story favorites by him is Parson's Pleasure.

I recall digging into one of his children's stories and feeling pangs of jealousy that he thought of it first.

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I can't remember the other short story he wrote. About that guy who walked on the sidewalk when most people would be in their houses.

I think it was the Pedestrian. I don't know.

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littlek wrote:

Contrex, was he?

I have always thought so. I am not alone. There was plenty of stuff written at the time of his death in 1990. Recently, (2004) among the praise in an article about him, the Washington Post critic Jonathan Yardley said this...

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Roald Dahl was a complicated and in some respects disagreeable man [...] Dahl was entirely capable of unredeemed nastiness; he was, quite famously, an outspoken and unapologetic anti-Semite, and earned every ounce of the censure he received on that score.

There is the original depiction of the Oompa-Loompas in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." The first edition of the book described them as dark-skinned pygmies from Africa who let out warlike chants. This brought about accusations of racism from the NAACP and other groups.

This article, "The Dark Side OF Roald Dahl" may be of interest...

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/171/story_17100_2.html

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Not exactly creepy.

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he was, quite famously, an outspoken and unapologetic anti-Semite

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Not exactly creepy.

Not if you're a Nazi.

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I'm just being contradictory about semantics. I'd call him an anti-semetic, racist disagreeable ass rather than creepy.

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littlek wrote:

I'm just being contradictory about semantics. I'd call him an anti-semetic, racist disagreeable ass rather than creepy.

Well, I use "creepy" to mean "disagreeable". Apart from his views and attitude to his fellow creatures, he looked like a toad. He would have made my flesh creep. Since it is a slang word, I am interested to know why you feel you have any authority to criticise my using it thus.

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here is another I forgot the author though
"Fiction shows us what reality obscures"

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It was Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the quote is "Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures".

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