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>If the namedropped authors aren't well known by today's children, why not adjust them? It doesn't much change the tone and it's not really relevant to the plot
by boomboomsubban 4y ago
>If the namedropped authors aren't well known by today's children, why not adjust them? It doesn't much change the tone and it's not really relevant to the plot.
Do you think children in 1988 had a better understanding of who Joseph Conrad was than kids today? Maybe slightly, as I'm sure some parents bought Heart of Darkness after Apocalypse Now came out, but I certainly had no idea who he was at the age I read Dahl books.