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1. Uhhrrr+ns1[view] [source] 2023-02-19 06:10:35
>>GavCo+(OP)
This makes me wonder: how many of the books I grew up with had already been bowdlerized?
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2. gsincl+bx1[view] [source] 2023-02-19 07:18:14
>>Uhhrrr+ns1
It’s interesting that Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has been edited before — “de-negroed”, in fact, according to Dahl.

It forces me to wrestle with that uncomfortable feeling that I find these edits off-putting, yet the so-called “original” version I am mentally defending was not in fact necessarily the original.

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