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Zach Weinersmith on Beowulf and Bea Wolf

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Is Your Book About Fun?

Most of Western literature certainly for essentially for children is supposed to inculcate moral values. Your book's about fun. Is that just like a marketing trick sack or do you want to make it more broadly? I think Joyce was the one who said there are three kinds of books there's propaganda pornography and then the rest is art. And so, so meeting like propaganda is brush your teeth don't be racist stuff I believe and I voiced on my kids because that's what one does. But if you can't tell it with a story it's not good media. If you pick up a French kids book they're much easier to find a book where the kids are just like long stocking

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