I'm depressed and feeling mired in the past worse than usual, so let's move on from Ray Bradbury to another childhood favorite, a mouse TF story that's also rather like a kid's manual on how to be a bigot, and that's Roald Dahl's The Witches. ~Chara
I should watch a Patricia Neal movie afterwards, to wash away the taste of Dahl. ~Chara
"Number five", she said, chewing the end of her cigar as though it were a delicious asparagus, "was rather an interesting case. A nine-year-old boy called Leif was summer-holidaying with his family on the fjord, and the whole family was picnicking and swimming off some rocks on one of those little islands. Young Leif dived into the water and his father, who was watching him, noticed that he stayed under for an unusually long time. When he came to the surface at last, he wasn't Leif any more.""What was he, Grandmamma?"
"He was a porpoise."
"He wasn't! He couldn't have been!"
"He was a lovely young porpoise," she said. "And as friendly as could be."
oh no, how horrible. /s
you know, if you want some popular kid's entertainment about a witch who wants to do awful things to children, there's always Zyuranger, where you actually find out why the Witch Bandora hates kids so much because there's an actual reason and not just peddling a stereotype
~Chara
