 It is fairly easy to imaginethe process being
reversed. To what extent people draw their ideasfrom fiction is disputable. If that
is so, theboys twopenny weeklies are of the deepest importance.
Are you boys just phoneys,as I think you
are?
There is nothing at all like thisin any English
paper likely to be read by boys. To begin with, there is no political development
whatever.
And yet theworld of the ORACLE and PEGS PAPER is a
pure fantasy-world.
The DETECTIVE WEEKLY has taken over Sexton
Blake.
A few yearsago I was a teacher at two of these
schools myself.
On another page of the same paper: LIVES OF THE
HOTCHACHORUS GIRLS. But it is worth noticing that the dislike of Dickens implied
inthis remark is something unusual. After all, England is always in the right and
England alwayswins, so why worry? This raises the question, why is there no
suchthing as a left-wing boys paper? It is thesame fantasy all the time; pretending
to be richer than you are. Fromthe outside of the glass you see a beautiful girl,
innocently dressed.
Here is a letter from one of Gussys girl admirers;I
think youre too hard on Gussy.
Ayress column of advice in theORACLE, for instance,
is extremely sensible and well written. Here is a letter from one of Gussys girl
admirers;I think youre too hard on Gussy. Here, forinstance, are a few of the
questions sent in by readers:What age is Dick Roylance? Bills chin was bleeding, and
Ben had a cut overhis right eye.
I wonder hes still In existence, theway you treat
him. Bloodspattered and I went back on my heels, but surged in and ripped my
rightunder the heart. The tract Ireceived was of the question-and-answer kind:Q,. At
first glance such an idea merely makes one slightly sick. After all, England is
always in the right and England alwayswins, so why worry?
In any case the central character isnot likely to
be a coal-miner.
Sex, so far from being taboo, is THE subject. The
one theme that is really newis the scientific one. Hitler and the Nazis have not yet
appeared, or arebarely making their appearance. In reality their basicpolitical
assumptions are two: nothing ever changes, and foreigners arefunny. Theivy clusters
thickly round the old grey stones. But every one ofthose minutes seemed inordinately
long to Bunter. It is thething you recognize him by, like the Frenchmans beard or
the Italiansbarrel-organ.
The King is on his throneand the pound is worth a
pound.
Wells, who, ratherthan Jules Verne, is the father
of Scientifiction. Sex, so far from being taboo, is THE subject.
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