Nevsky/Stalin

Tore Rye Andersen torerye at hotmail.com
Tue Jun 5 06:01:46 CDT 2007


Ya Sam:

>You know there is a funny nursery rhyme by a children's poet Korney 
>Tschukovsky in which a terrible moustachioed cockroach terrorises other 
>animals. After Stalin's death a host of interpretators were keen to point 
>out that the cockroach is a thinly-veiled portrayal of Stalin. As it turned 
>out, it was just a cockroach.

AtD, p. 655:

"It is comforting to imagine this [the Tatzelwurm] as an outward and visible 
manifestation of something else," chuckled one of the Austrians, puffing on 
a cigar stub. "But sometimes a Tatzelwurm is only a Tatzelwurm."

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