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Indeed: "Probably the Queen knew quite well what he was thinking; for she knew, though Edmund did not, that this was enchanted Turkish Delight and that anyone

Indeed: "Probably the Queen knew quite well what he was thinking; for she knew, though Edmund did not, that this was enchanted Turkish Delight and that anyone who had once tasted it would want more and more of it, and would even, if they were allowed, go on eating it till they killed themselves." http://www.shmoop.com/lion-witch-wardrobe/supernatural-quotes.html http://www.shmoop.com/lion-witch-wardrobe/supernatural-quote... The article actually points that out too, but glosses over it: "(To be fair, it was enchanted. But still, Edmund. Still.)" Seems like an important point though. Yes, Edmund liked turkish delight enough to ask for it in the first place, but once he had the Queen's Turkish Delight he was more hopeless than a heroin addict desperate for their next fix. As an aside, I can't believe we're debating Turkish Delight and "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" on Hacker News.

OneOneOneOne 11y ago
"(To be fair, it was enchanted. But still, Edmund. Still.)" Yes. The enchantment would strongly affect Edmund. I am surprised the article author thinks this a trifle.
anon4 11y ago
Kind of like saying it's awful how people paint Hitler and Nazism in general in such a dehumanizing evil light, when they rebuilt a war-torn Germany into a well-oiled prosperous country (To be fair, they genocided some minorities¹. But still, people. Still.) ¹ - Assuming that the holocaust happened. It is my understanding that a lot of people deny that any ethnic minorities were killed by the Nazi regime and that the entire thing was fabricated, but the overwhelming opinion is that a number of people perished in the camps and a not insignificant amount of the survivors were severely maltreated.