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Title: Altering Kipling's prose?!
Review: Just read the previous review (about 'simplifying' thelanguage in Jungle Book). I am reading the ORIGINALtext JB to my eight year old son (for over a week now),and he's not once indicated that the language puzzleshim. He did ask me why Mowgli uses thee and thouand wouldst while talking with the animals, butaccepted my explanation without demur.Reminds me of the lines from an Elinor Wylie poem"Our mutable tongue is like the seaCurled wave and shattering thunder-fit;Dangle in strings of sand shall heWho smooths the ripples out of it."Say it out loud, and feel what it does to yourmouth and face - that's what Kipling's prosedoes.
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