Death approaches better skedaddle5/18/2023 ![]() Harry: To read? Why would you want to read when you got the television set sitting right in front of you? Harry: A book? What do you want a book for? Matilda: To read. One night she got up her courage and asked her father for something she desperately wanted. Narrator: By the time she was four, Matilda had read every magazine in the house. Her father went to work selling used cars for unfair prices, and her mother took off to play bingo. Every morning, Matilda's older brother Michael went to school. As time went by, she developed a sense of style. Narrator: By the time she was two, Matilda had learned what most people learn in there early thirties how to take care of herself. Zinnia: You're supposed to eat the spinach. Now look what you did! Narrator: They named her Matilda. Had they paid any attention to her at all, they would have realized she was a rather extraordinary child. A Rather Extraordinary Child Narrator: The Wormwoods were so wrapped up in their own silly lives, that they barely noticed they had a daughter. Harry: Get off the streets, you little dodos! ![]() Boy: The Wormwood guy is back! Narrator: Harry and Zinnia Wormwood lived in a very nice neighborhood in a very nice house, but they were not really very nice people. $9.25 for a bar of soap? Zinnia: Well, I had to take a shower, Harry! Harry: $5,000? I'm not paying it! What are they going to do, repossess the kid? Most parents think their children are the most beautiful creatures ever grace the planet. One way and another though, every human being is unique, for better or for worse. Some will only be good at making Jell-O salad. Some will grow to be butchers, or bakers or candlestick makers. 6.20 Matilda Returns to Trunchbull's House.
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