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I didn’t read it that way. It seems like a completely normal interview.
by theli0nheart 5y ago
I didn’t read it that way. It seems like a completely normal interview.
- aaronharnly 5y agoLook at the rest of the issue: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/04/01/the-paris-review-for-young-readers/ https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/04/01/the-paris-rev... Definitely a parody.
- perihelions 5y agoYou read this as a straight-faced literary defense of "Very Hungry Caterpillar"? "I don’t recognize childhood obesity. No one should. I see children doing what they like, which is eating, and doing it without the shame or remorse later drilled into them by Judeo-Christian ethics. This is what I mean when I say juvenile morality: it’s a kind of a priori humanism. Children predate the law." The whole interview is one long joke, and the part about the publisher changing the plot is a knowing parody of author-editor relations -- to anyone who's ever been within blast radius of one!
- theli0nheart 5y agoSee my other comment on this thread, I totally see now this is a joke. :)