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👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It's lurking beneath the surface, swimming like a shark under seemingly calm waters, making everything more thrilling precisely because we sense its presence without seeing it fully.
I totally agree with Burrow here.
And here's a similar thought from the great screenwriter and actor Emma Thompson on Sky News on what she appreciates about Dahl.
As the books sell more and more copies, Dahl's ambitions grow.
He's not just stumbling into the realm of children's life.
He's attempting to conquer it.
He becomes like a general mapping out a campaign.
He thinks about every detail of what works and what doesn't.
Listen to how precisely he dissects small elements that captivate his young readers.
And something extraordinary happens when Dahl fully embraces his new identity as children's author, this new mask that he's chosen to wear.
His creativity, which was previously kept on a somewhat tight leash in his adult fiction, breaks totally free.
It's as if all those years writing sophisticated, controlled short stories were just warm-ups for the wild, unbridled imagination he unleashes now.
Dahl himself has a fascinating theory about this creative explosion.
Remember his plane crash in the war?
The one that left him with severe head trauma for decades?
He believes the frontal lobe damage made him less inhibited, essentially rewiring his brain.
But of course, there's a downside too, as we'll hear when we get to some of the interviews Dahl gave, especially one in particular.
His unfiltered, uninhibited manner allowed his bigotry to come to the surface and nearly ended his career.
When you listen to podcasts about AI and tech and the future of humanity, the hosts always act like they know what they're talking about and they are experts at everything.