My Uncle Oswald: Roald Dahl (Expect the Unexpected)

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Roald Dahl was a British novelist, short story writer and screenwriter of Norwegian descent, who rose to prominence in the 1940's with works for both children and adults, and became one of the world's bestselling authors. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2010-11-30 19:27:07 Bookplateleaf 0005 Boxid IA134905 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Comment Removing Scanfee from Billable Books scanned before June 2011 which appear to have manually set scanfees Donor Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization: Invoked and played with. Technically it's the rapist who's being assaulted, since he didn't consent to being drugged into performing. However, the victim assumes he's acting on his own power and believes he's the one who committed rape upon Miss Howcomely, who of course not only expected this reaction, but has a grand old time herself. Since both parties ultimately enjoy the act, the matter of whether or not this counts as rape is glossed over in the text (although there are several moments when Oswald and Woresley rather jovially refer to it as rape).

For Science!: The effects of Bitch are studied in an experiment with Biotte's young female lab assistant being sprayed with the scent and having a young fit male boxer approach her, while Biotte and Oswald watch with noseplugs on, noting everything from the effective distance of the scent and the duration of time it affects the male test subject. Oswald calls Biotte a Dirty Old Man, and Biotte retorts that he's a scientist. The lab assistant herself willingly participates because it's for science, and eagerly asks for another dose when it's over. Also, let’s not be cute about it: Sensitivity readers, including those at the company that edited the Dahl books, are a newly created class of censors, a priesthood of offense diviners. How can any one person be an expert in all of the fields covered by modern publishing? It’s an impossible request, and so instead, too often the industry resorts to identitarian deference—one member of an ethnic or racial or sexual minority gives the “minority view.” (Inclusive Minds told the Telegraph that its Inclusion Ambassadors have a range of “lived experience,” and that the company does the bulk of its work at the development stage, only rarely suggesting changes to existing works.) Implied to be Oswald's fate after contracting an incurable disease. He lasts many years yet though, and it's implied that he blew his fortune trying to find a cure in vain, leaving only his diaries to the narrator. Historical Domain Character: The book contains a laundry list of various real-world historical figures only to put them into silly sexual situations. They're all pretty much parodies of the genuine articles. That tang runs through these tales of sly antiques dealers, rat catchers, unlicensed greyhound racers and maggot farmers: “Easiest thing in the world to run a maggot-factory… All you need is a couple of old oil drums and a few lumps of rotten meat or a sheep’s head, and you put them in the oil drums and that’s all you do. The flies do the rest.” My Uncle Oswald

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Disguised Horror Story: "The Visitor", the first story written yet the last chronologically, becomes one due to its Wham Line. My Uncle Oswald is a satirical softcore pornographic novel written by Roald Dahl (yes, that one) in 1979. It follows two short stories also starring the title character, "The Visitor" (1965) and "Bitch" (1974), both first published in Playboy. Worsley has spent most of his career studying the reproductive system of animals, and he has discovered a way of saving sperm by storing it in cold conditions to be used later on. Oswald sees an opportunity to make money using the discovery. Together with Yasmin Howcomely and the professor, the trio tour the world collecting and saving the sperms of the world’s greatest artists and geniuses and selling them to rich women who desire to bear artistic and genius children. diary of Oswald Hendryks Cornelius - his memories at age 43 of his escapades some 25 years earlier. Patriotic Fervor: A Meta example of sorts. It is a much milder example than most, but it's hardly a coincidence that the only person who manages to totally foil - from the moral standpoint as well - our amoral protagonists in this novel by Anglo-Norwegian Roald Dahl is the King of Norway.

Originally published in Playboy, the Switch Bitch stories are all about sexual deception and manipulation. In The Great Switcheroo, two men decide to liven up suburban life by devising a ploy to sleep with each other’s wives; in The Last Act, an embittered former lover plots violent revenge on a grieving widow. Critics have found these stories crude and misogynistic – any contemporary screen treatment would require some hefty revisions. The Swan The Uncle Oswald of the title and two of his friends, with the help of the aphrodisiac the Spanish Fly (powdered Sudanese Blister Beetle) put a daring scheme into operation: extracting and selling the sperm of famous people. The idea is to get the said famous men to take a small dose of the medicine, in presence of Yasmin, one of the threesome and a drop-dead gorgeous female. Sexually aroused beyond control, they will all fornicate with Yasmin: and their sperm will be collected by an ingenious method and frozen by Arthur Worsley, the other member of the threesome. (Remember this story is set in the early years of the Twentieth Century, when such things were unheard of.) Crime and Passion” review column by Darcy O’Brien from the April 21, 1980 issue of New York Magazine ( read online) Food Porn: Oswald is very easily distracted from his story by descriptions of the gourmet meals he has along the way. Roald Dahl (1916-1990) was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. He spent his childhood in England and, at age eighteen, went to work for the Shell Oil Company in Africa. When World War II broke out, he joined the Royal Air Force and became a fighter pilot. At the age of twenty-six he moved to Washington, D.C., and it was there he began to write. His first short story, which recounted his adventures in the war, was bought by The Saturday Evening Post, and so began a long and illustrious career.

Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter. In fact, Uncle Oswald and his accomplice are unsuccessful here: Picasso pounces on the accomplice before she has a chance to use a condom to collect his semen. My Uncle Oswald is a farce and satire, telling the story of a sex-obsessed man called Oswald, who embarks on a eugenics mission. Essentially, this mission is to collect the sperm of artists and geniuses, to give to women who want clever or talented children. As such, this novel is based on a silly and ludicrous idea, exposing the absurdity of eugenics theories. Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-alpha-20201231-10-g1236 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-WL-2000042 Openlibrary_edition Overall: 3.8 It’s very funny with memorable scenes, but even Oswald’s self-awareness can’t stop the conceit/joke from wearing thin. The end has a great payoff that works as well as the wondrous endings found in The Best of Roald Dahl.

The nameless narrator has revealed snippets of the lovable, lascivious Uncle Oswald’s life in other collections, but this is the only novel – brief though it is – dedicated solely to the diaries of “the greatest fornicator of all time.” Inspired by stories of the aphrodisiac powers of the Sudanese blister beetle, the palpable seductiveness of the lovely Yasmin Howcomely, and the scientific know-how of Professor A. R. Woresley, Uncle Oswald anticipates the concept of the Nobel sperm bank by some 40 years, flimflamming crowned heads, great artists, and eccentric geniuses into making “donations.” The life of a commercial sperm broker has a few surprises even for a sophisticated bon vivant, and Dahl manages his signature sting-in-the-tail ending even in one of his lightest comic works. Satire and Sensitivity” by Marion Halligan from the May 24, 1980 issue of The Canberra Times– Canberra, Australia ( read online) urn:oclc:688608036 Scandate 20110316213504 Scanner scribe10.sanfrancisco.archive.org Scanningcenter sanfrancisco Source This 1960 collection features such grim pleasures as William and Mary, a sci-fi story about a man with a terminal diagnosis who agrees to let a doctor transplant his brain into a vat of liquid after death, and link it up to one of his eyes. After his death, his widow Mary discovers that she prefers the helpless brain to her former husband. The story ends with her blowing cigarette smoke (a habit he hated) into his eye. Other horrifying highlights include The Landlady, about a boarding house owner who poisons and then stuffs helpless schoolboys, and Royal Jelly, in which a newborn baby transforms gradually into a bee. Switch Bitch

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The story opens up with the main protagonist, Oswald Hendryks Cornelius, a corny and opportunistic man who uses outrageous schemes to become wealthy. As the story unravels, Oswald claims to have discovered the perfect aphrodisiac for men called the Sudanese Blister Beetle. Oswald uses this beetle to make powder which is directly ingested into the body and begins effect after ten minutes.