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1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 04:54:00 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   stop shaming people for reading kids’ books. adult books are about sad people having affairs while kids’ books have a magic tree house or a worm driving an apple. you tell me who’s winning

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   1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 04:54:29 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

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      1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 05:00:05 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

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         I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children's story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children's story. The good ones last. A waltz which you can like only when you are waltzing is a bad waltz.

         -- C. S. Lewis, "On Three Ways of Writing for Children" (1952) — in "Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories" (1967), p. 24

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