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Showing posts with label Roald Dahl. Show all posts

March 12, 2018

I've declared today to be Roald Dahl Day!

Please enjoy these offerings:

1.) Roald Dahl would have disliked living in Portland, as he suffered from “pogonophobia,” which is an extreme hatred of beards.

2.) How did I not know that Roald Dahl wrote the screenplay for the James Bond movie, “You Only Live Twice“?

3.) "A persistent muddler. Vocabulary negligible, sentences malconstructed. He reminds me of a camel."
—From Roald Dahl's report card in 1931 (when he was 15).

4.) My phone’s voice recognition spells Roald Dahl as “ROFL doll.”

That concludes the Roald Dahl Day festivities!


August 31, 2011

Oh, that Roald Dahl!

The author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory received LOTS of questions about his books. And he came up with some pretty interesting responses. Witness Roald Dahl's letter to a class of kids about his book The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar:
From here.