Dahl's chickens - by Sam Kriss - Numb at the Lodge
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On Roald Dahl, JK Rowling, and the literature of cruelty
I am a contrarian. I have no firm political principles and no meaningful ethics. There’s a hole in my brain where those things ought to be, slowly filling with a greasy, cloudy-white fluid, and every so often I need to go to the hospital to have it drained. What I do have is a ravenous, zombielike compulsion to say the precise opposite of what everyone else is saying. I will like absolutely any kind of nonsense until it becomes popular, at which point I will savagely turn against it. I will believe in any idea so long as it’s annoying. I can dress this up in fancy arguments, but at base it’s…
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