[Sca-cooks] Re: OOP, OT _The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

[Jessica Tiffin]

Adamantius wrote:
>There's actually a nice scene in "Have Space Suit, Will Travel", in
>which the narrator's father looks at the pablum curriculum at his
>son's school, and loads him down with books to provide him with a
>proper edumakashun. This is kind of what's happening here.
Diana Wynne Jones!  Diana Wynne Jones!  Specifically, Dark Lord of Derkholm
and its sequel, The Year of the Griffin, which has a wizard father
subverting the entire wizard college curriculum... :>  Jones is the
_thinking_ child's Harry Potter, and her child psychology seems much better
to me...

(and, food content wise, YotGriffin has a lovely running thread where a
student tries to magically improve the school refectory food... )

JdH


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