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Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 08:54:12 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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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- Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 08:54:57 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
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- Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 09:00:16 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
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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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