Not unless you were in the Balkans, I should think

Nov 14, 2014 19:59


No, really, huh??? WHUT???
The once popular novelist Eleanor H. Porter wrote the original children’s book Pollyanna in war-ravaged 1913.
I don't even.
Furthermore:
a) the USA did not even enter the war for several years after that.
b) Not to mention, not exactly ravaged by the war in ways that would seem at all credible to members of the European combatant nations.
This abomination appears in The Paris Review, which until now, one had supposed to be that SRS literary journal with the strong track record of doing amazing extended author interviews.
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war, ignorance, unexamined-assumptions, children's literature, facile-preconceptions, mistaken, rant

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