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It’s easier to change how you look than to hide who you are.
Originally, this story was about a weasel, an animal which the ancient Greeks kept for pest control in the way we keep cats. Modern Greek versions of this story make it a story about a cat, as did Victorian storyteller Joseph Jacobs.
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Posted February 17 2015
1631
Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.
A SPITEFUL little terrier with a penchant for nipping people on the ankle didn’t quite understand why his master had given him a jolly little bell.
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Posted February 17 2015
1632
A telling satire on fashionable thinking among the elite.
Why do fashionable ideas continue to circulate among the elite, long after ordinary people have realised that they are nonsense? Andersen’s folk-tale explains it brilliantly.
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Posted February 17 2015