The Twits

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The next morning, when Mr Twit went out to collect the birds, he found four miserable little boys sitting in the tree, stuck as tight as could be by the seats of their pants to the branches. Si tratta invece dei disgustosi signori Sporcelli, che passano le loro giornate a farsi scherzi tremendi, di una crudeltà ingiustificata. They continuously play nasty practical jokes on each other out of hatred for one another, ranging from Mr Twit hiding a frog in his wife's bed that he claims is a monster, to Mrs Twit tricking her husband into eating worms in his spaghetti.

It's a little too stuffed with meanness, and it was annoying to explain why awful ideas like "ugly people are ugly because they had such ugly thoughts" aren't true, at bedtime. She is said to have quite a nice face once, but her ugly thoughts began to show on her face until she was so ugly, you couldn't bear to look at her. As the sun went down, birds would fly in from all around to roost for the night in The Big Dead Tree. They hate everything -- except playing mean jokes on each other, catching innocent birds to put in their Bird Pies, and making their caged monkeys, the Muggle-Wumps, stand on their heads all day. Mr and Mrs Twit are extremely nasty, so the Muggle-Wump monkeys and the Roly-Poly bird hatch an ingenious plan to give them just the ghastly surprise they deserve!

Many were originally written for American magazines such as Ladies Home Journal, Harper's, Playboy and The New Yorker, then subsequently collected by Dahl into anthologies, gaining world-wide acclaim. He has won many prizes, including the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration, the Eleanor Farjeon Award and the Kate Greenaway Medal, and in 1999 he was appointed the first Children’s Laureate. And I also think there’s some truth in thinking cruel and wicked thoughts warping your outward appearance over time. I get angry, feel incredibly destructive, make life hell for anyone nearby and then it passes and I just get really depressed for awhile.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but I am someone who will print out giant photographs of my own face and stick them to the walls of my boss’s office when she’s out.They play pranks on each other; such as worms in food, frogs in beds, psychological torture, and air space incursions.

A few key plot points are perhaps a bit too easily glossed over, perhaps because Dahl is writing for a younger audience than his longer books like Matilda and The Witches - it is a much shorter book than either and feels a bit rushed towards the end. They weren’t big bits, mind you, because he used to wipe those off with the back of his hand or on his sleeve while he was eating. With her feet tied to the ground and her arms pulled upwards by the balloons, she was unable to move. The Funny Walking-stick To pay Mrs Twit back for the worms in his spaghetti, Mr Twit thought up a really clever nasty trick.Instead, I guess I unintentionally wait to wade through the bullshit of my depression, and do something then to fuck everything up, or at least start a chain reaction. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it. But the fourth little boy, who had more sense than the others, whispered, ‘Listen, I’ve just had an idea. Leer a Roald Dahl es una delicia, un o de esos gustos que me tengo que daral menos de vez en cuando, esl señor era un genio, tenía una imaginación fuera de serie, pero sobre todo el mejor sentido del humor del universo, bueno además humor negro.