The Itsy Bitsy Reader
April 18th, 2003
Lileks has only one child, which allows him the mental clarity to poignantly describe the links between modern children’s literature and the great classics of the West:
Tonight I took Gnat up to my room to play while I crunched some video. She started taking down Penguin paperbacks from the shelf and reading them out loud. They all had the same plot and the same conclusion.
Plato’s Republic: the spider went down the spout and they all lived happily ever after. The end.
War and Peace: the spider went down the spout and they all lived happily ever after. The end.
Every novel by Turgenev: the spider went down the spout and they all lived happily ever after. The end.
“The Nun,
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