Re:150 years of Hans Christian Andersen
by agys on Thursday July 31, 2025 @01:22AM
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I really love the less famous stories by Andersen that involve objects or insects… A needle, a coin in a foreign land, a teapot that feels empty, a tree (that wants to be cut down!) have deep inner thoughts; a butterfly in love!
In all those stories the last sentence introduces some sort of a final twist.
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Re:150 years of Hans Christian Andersen
by coneonthefloor on Thursday July 31, 2025 @10:47AM
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About a decade ago I was at a museum in Odense, Denmark. I vaguely remember a comical story about him and Charles Dickens. In that Andersen would regularly visit Dickens and stay with him and his family. The gist was that Dickens found this to be quite irritating, as he was not enthused by Andersen's company, finding him to be much too emotional and having "strange" Danish customs.
Re:150 years of Hans Christian Andersen
by 615341652341 on Friday August 01, 2025 @12:07AM
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Curious what a strange Danish custom entails
Re:150 years of Hans Christian Andersen
by lifestyleguru on Friday August 01, 2025 @12:41AM
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He was talking in his sleep in a weird dialect of Swedish.
Re:150 years of Hans Christian Andersen
by coneonthefloor on Friday August 01, 2025 @01:12AM
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> he requested one of Dickens' sons to shave him on a daily basis — a custom performed by hosts to male guests in Denmark.
https://www.grunge.com/617197/the-truth-about-hans-christian...