Laura Ingalls’ nemesis in On the Banks of Plum Creek, duh, Nellie Oleson.
“Nellie Oleson was very pretty. Her yellow hair hung in in long curls, with two big blue ribbon bows on top. Her dress was think white lawn, with little blue flowers scattered over it, and she wore shoes.”
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We know our letters just fine, and we know our numbers to a certain point, but books were always the realm of four-eyed poindexters with bowler hats and cravats. That’s why it pleases us so that America’s proud illiterates are finally stepping up and pushing back against the crushing tide of education that threatens to swallow us all into its gaping maw of checked facts. Champions of the Ignorantiat will not like it here.
