Dan on Santa Claus - Readre's Digest

[Amy Z <lupinesque@yahoo.com>]

<Daniel Radcliffe's Reader's Digest Christmas piece snipped because 
it's probably a copyright violation to post it here at such length 
anyway>

bboy wrote:

> Certainly look at the sentiment of what he said but also look at the
> used of the English language and construction of his sentences. 
> 
> Very few adults, even some professional writers, could write so
> expressively.

I'm not *intimately* familiar with the style of Reader's Digest, 
since I mostly read the jokes (though as a morbid little child I 
loved the "I Can't Hold on Much Longer!" rescue stories), but this 
sounds ghost-written to me--or at least heavily edited.  There is a 
Reader's-Digest-y tone that makes me think DR might've jotted down 
some memories and thoughts and then an editor shaped it into RD prose.

Amy