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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