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Oct 30, 2024 at 11:13am
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10,000 GPs were sent to Grincherella sees candle light with this post.
BINGO! You're the winner. But - did you know these facts? He was a fan of using language in different ways. https://www.britishcouncil.org/voices-magazine/what-do-we-learn-roald-dahls-crea... Children’s stories - James and the Giant Peach' and others Adult short stories. “Pig” - this one is on the internet. Very strange and dark. “The Great Automatic Grammatizator,” an eerily prescient fable of 1952 in which an aspiring young writer invents a computer–printing press to churn out ingeniously formulaic books: First, by depressing one of a series of master buttons, the writer made his primary decision: historical, satirical, philosophical, political, romantic, erotic, humorous, or straight. Then, from the second row (the basic buttons), he chose his theme: army life, pioneer days, civil war, world war, racial problem, wild west, country life, childhood memories…. The third row of buttons gave a choice of literary style: classical, whimsical, racy, Hemingway, Faulkner, Joyce, feminine, etc. The fourth row was for character, the fifth for wordage…ten long rows of pre-selector buttons. Within a year, the machine has produced “at least one half of all the novels and stories published in the English language.” Dahl married an actress, Patricia Neal. His life had a few tragedies, a child killed in an accident, a child died from measles, his wife had a stroke. . . . |
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