I didn't touch a word of it.' (an opinion which would have been news to Roald's early teachers!). Forester was amazed by the result, telling Roald 'I'm bowled over. Forester (author of the Captain Hornblower series) who asked the young pilot to write down his war experiences for a story he was writing. It was there that he met famous author C.S. Later in the war Roald Dahl was sent to America. Roald wrote about these experiences in his books Boy and Going Solo. Tragically of the 20 men in his squadron, Roald Dahl was one of only three to survive. But being nearly two metres tall he found himself squashed into his fighter plane, knees around his ears and head jutting forward. With the outbreak of the Second World War Roald Dahl joined the RAF. In Africa he learnt to speak Swahili, drove from diamond mines to gold mines, and survived a bout of malaria where his temperature reached 105.5 degrees (that's very high!). He seems incapable of marshalling his thoughts on paper!' After finishing school Roald Dahl, in search of adventure, travelled to East Africa to work for a company called Shell. When he was at school Roald Dahl received terrible reports for his writing - with one teacher actually writing in his report, 'I have never met a boy who so persistently writes the exact opposite of what he means.
‘Which child,’ she says to herself all day long, ‘exactly which child shall I choose for my next squelching?’ Continue reading here… Even if she is working as a cashier in a supermarket or typing letters for a businessperson or driving round in a fancy car (and she could be doing any of these things), her mind will always be plotting and scheming and churning and burning and whizzing and phizzing with murderous bloodthirsty thoughts. It is all she thinks about the whole day long.
Her passion is to do away with them, one by one. They live in ordinary houses and they work in ORDINARY JOBS.Ī real witch hates children with a red-hot sizzling hatred that is more sizzling and red-hot than any hatred you could possibly imagine.Ī real witch spends all her time plotting to get rid of the children in her particular territory. REAL WITCHES dress in ordinary clothes and look very much like ordinary women. The most important thing you should know about REAL WITCHES is this. In fairy tales, witches always wear silly black hats and black coats, and they ride on broomsticks.īut this is not a fairy tale.
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