Roald Dahl was a genius of grotesque. What makes this chapter so brilliant is the language. It's a marvel of charm and wit, without a word to spare. If it were

Roald Dahl was a genius of grotesque. What makes this chapter so brilliant is the language. It's a marvel of charm and wit, without a word to spare. If it weren't playful it would just be horrid, but playfully horrid is another thing altogether. "We’ve got to use one or two schoolmasters occasionally or it wouldn’t work."