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[pearwaldorf]

And that is why those who are intent on mischief will do what fundamentalists of every stripe always do: insist on a literal interpretation of every single word, a point-by-point identification of this with that, a 'correct' reading that's authorised and approved and certified by the authorities they submit to. People like that don't understand irony or implication or subtlety of any kind. There were even some early critics of the books who, because of the bone-headed literalist way they read, accused me of turning morality upside down, and of telling readers that evil was good and good was evil. What people of that sort are really afraid of is the power of the human imagination, precisely because it can take up so many shapes. They don't like metaphor, they don't understand it, they don't trust it. Deep down, they don't like stories at all.

Phillip Pullman answers the charges of bowdlerization in regards to the His Dark Materials movies.

I don't know if I am much comforted by that, but it's something, I suppose.