Children don’t read to find their identity. They don’t read to free themselves of guilt, to quench the thirst for rebellion, or to get rid of alienation. They have no use for psychology. They detest sociology…. They still believe in good, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation and other such obsolete stuff.

Singer contrasts adult, theory-laden reading with the direct, story-hungry imagination of children. The list of motives—identity, guilt, rebellion, alienation—satirizes modern psychological and sociological frameworks that can turn literature into self-diagnosis or ideological case study. By saying children “still believe” in moral categories and in folkloric beings, he praises their openness to narrative enchantment and clear stakes (good/evil) rather than ambiguity for its own sake. The closing nod to “logic, clarity, punctuation” is both comic and polemical: it defends craft, intelligibility, and traditional storytelling against fashions that Singer implies have made literature obscure or programmatic.