Several of Roald Dahl's classic children's books have been rewritten for new generations -- with the removal of words like 'fat,' 'female' and other changes that many are calling unnecessary.
Here's an old passage describing Augustus ..."A nine-year-old boy who was so enormously fat he looked as though he had been blown up with a powerful pump. Great flabby folds of fat bulged out from every part of his body, and his face like a monstrous ball of dough.'
The 2022 re-write goes like this ..."A nine-year-old boy who was so enormous he looked as though he had been blown up with a powerful pump. Great folds bulged out from every part of his body, and his face was like a ball of dough." In this instance, they got rid of"fat." While some words were removed, others were completely added in anew -- so, not Dahl's original text -- including one new passage from"The Witches." In that book, there's an idea about witches hiding in plain sight ... who are actually bald under their wigs.
The main character is describing his plan to ID witches in public to his grandmother -- going around and pulling women's hair to see if they're a witch. In the original text, the grandma replies ..."'Don't be foolish,' my grandmother said. 'You can't go round pulling the hair of every lady you meet, even if she is wearing gloves. Just you try it and see what happens.
This change to Roald Dahl is so preposterously, laughably pointless it makes you wonder whether the publisher is aware that fiction is an act of creatively making things up.
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