• Stern@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Anyone else breathing a sigh of relief that the childrens author with a overactive libido wasn’t diddling kids?

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        8 hours ago

        If I recall, Dahl was some sort of secret agent for Britain during WW2. So not all that surprising that he’d be a p.o.s.

        It would be like a CIA agent writing children’s books.

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          2 hours ago

          Roald Dahl was an RAF pilot during the early days of World War II. He got injured and was discharged because of it. I’ve read his autobiography when I was a child, which was quite interesting. Shame that he was anti-semite.