It's Wednesday, March 1, 2023.

I'm Albert Molar, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a

Christian world view.

I think we all understand we're living in a time of pretty comprehensive moral change.

From time to time, we talk about the comprehensiveness that is to say the breadth of that change,

but sometimes we need to think about the velocity of that change, the speed of the cultural

and moral change taking place.

And one of the things you note in terms of both comprehensiveness and speed is that literature

is quickly at a date, quickly at a style, and quickly out of favor.

That's exactly what you see with the British children's author, Roldole.

His books are now being rewritten.

There was an outcry, and the publisher, as Scent said, at least the English language publisher

that is now going to release two different editions of Roldole's classic children's books,

and that would include both the rewritten books and the ones that are at least pretty close

to being the originals.

Now, what are we talking about here?

Well, we're talking about a figure in children's literature who's pretty much iconic.

Roldole.

We're talking about someone who wrote books that sold by the thousands.

No, by the millions, something like 300 million books.

Dahl, a very prominent figure on the British literary scene, was the author of children's

classics such as Matilda, that was 1988.

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