Word: juster
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...Juster, however, has created with an appeal to everyone fuses to take for granted words, sounds, numbers, and all the simple glories. He puts a little Milo into a car run by and fuelled by Jules illustrations, and through realms of human...
...meets a Watchdog job is to prevent people from time (Long ago, the general was: "if there's so much of it, be very valuable," and the thus fell into disrepute.), a Bee (b-e-e-), a Humbug whom loves, and a flock of who bring cliches to life. Juster real respect for the hackneyed he likes to dust it off and you of the time when it shone and really enriched...
...Juster's prose has the wonderful, perceptive quality of Stephen Leacock's best work. His world is filled with motorless cars that go without saying, and synonym buns. There is an island called Conclusions which looks better from a distance and can only be reached by jumping. Though very unpleasant, it is quite difficult to leave...
...like Leacock, like any writer who can really appeal to children, Juster is out to explore, not disillusion. The boundary line he establishes between reality and fantasy is just an imaginary tollbooth, and unlike real tollbooths, this one reimburses itself into obsolescence; after one voyage, Milo's real world has become sufficiently full of exciting ideas...
There is also a beauty to Juster's style. The Princess of Reason, after he rescues her, tells Milo...