[atlarge-discuss] With Still Greater Dignity...

[Walter Schmidt <walts@dorsai.org>]

   ...Hans said it better than I

The Emperors New Suit - Hans Christian Andersen

http://hca.gilead.org.il/emperor.html

MANY, many years ago lived an emperor...his only ambition was to be always
well dressed.

One day two swindlers came to this city; they made people believe that
they were weavers, and declared (that) the clothes made of their material
(were) invisible to any man who was unfit for his office or unpardonably
stupid.

I should very much like to know how they are getting on with the cloth,
thought the emperor. But he felt rather uneasy when he remembered that he
who was not fit for his office could not see it.

I shall send my honest old minister to the weavers, thought the emperor.
He can judge best how the stuff looks, for he is intelligent, and nobody
understands his office better than he.

The good old minister went into the room where the swindlers sat...Heaven
preserve us! he thought...I cannot see anything at all, but he did not say
so....Oh dear, he thought, can I be so stupid...and nobody must know it!
Is it possible that I am not fit for my office? No, no, I cannot say that
I was unable to see the cloth....I shall tell the emperor that I like the
cloth very much.

Is it not magnificent....Your Majesty must admire the colours and the
pattern.

What is this? thought the emperor, I do not see anything at all....Am I
stupid? Am I unfit to be emperor...he said, turning to the weavers, your
cloth has our most gracious approval; and nodding contentedly he looked at
the empty loom, for he did not like to say that he saw nothing.

The emperor marched in the procession...and all who saw him...exclaimed:
Indeed, the emperors new suit is incomparable! What a long train he has!
How well it fits him! Nobody wished to let others know he saw nothing, for
then he would have been unfit for his office or too stupid.

But he has nothing on at all, said a little child at last. Good heavens!
listen to the voice of an innocent child, said the father, and one
whispered to the other what the child had said. But he has nothing on at
all, cried at last the whole people.

That made a deep impression upon the emperor, for it seemed to him that
they were right; but he thought to himself, Now I must bear up to the end.
And the chamberlains walked with still greater dignity, as if they carried
the train which did not exist.

   ...hmmm

And the(y) walked with still greater dignity, as if they carried the train
WHICH DID NOT EXIST...


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