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Thursday 2 March 2023

So who should pop up but our old friend?


 Well well.  I was following a link on Swedish TV, leading to a music programme, but who should pop up but or dear old friend the Emperor!  Seriously though, I had not appreciated that the old story is clearly alive and kicking in languages other than English.........

3 comments:

Tony Hinchliffe said...

Hans Christian Anderson.

BRIAN JOHN said...

Quite right you are -- I should have remembered that! So there was a Danish version of the tale! But on checking it out, it appears that the story has been around for a long time, with Spanish and German versions well before HCA wrote his story...... which has become a standard metaphor for anything that smacks of pretentiousness, pomposity, social hypocrisy, collective denial, or hollow ostentatiousness.

TonyH said...

Ex - PM? Whatsisname......