Like Kincaid's pedophile, who embodies a prohibited extreme of child-love, the pedophobe in children's literature occupies a similar place, giving voice to the most hyperbolic expressions of child-hate, sometimes even as a source of pleasure for child-hating adult (or child) readers who might consciously or unconsciously identify with the pedophobe.

If people hate to receive telephone sales calls, why should you telemarket?

Measure Maddalena, and measure Minerva, and from forehead to chin, you won't find a hairbreadth of difference between them.

Christianity (Christlikeness) means conduct arising from the highest Christian passions or motive forces, that is, from vanityless, ambitionless, unselfish, energetic devotedness of nature...