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   Erland Sommarskog to Mark Brader   
   Re: RQFTCINO13 Game 1, Rounds 7-8: kiddi   
   16 Sep 22 17:28:56   
   
   From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > * Game 1, Round 7 - Literature - Children's Literature   
   >   
   > 3. Benjamin Hoff used this character to explain Taoism.   
   >    Frederick Crews rewrote stories from the same character's world   
   >    in abstruse academic jargon to satirize philosophical approaches.   
   >    John T. Williams uses the character as a backdrop to illustrate   
   >    the works of philosophers, including Descartes, Kant, Plato,   
   >    and Nietzsche.  And the character also has a street named after   
   >    him in Warsaw (Ulica Kubusia Puchatka) and another in Budapest   
   >    (Micimackó utca).  Name the character.   
      
   Winnie the Pooh   
      
   (Chance has it that right now I'm listening to an album by the Hungarian   
   group KFT. On another album they have a song where they sing "Micimackó".   
   I've never known what it means. Until now.)   
      
   > 7. The popularity of these folk tales endured well beyond the   
   >    lifetimes of the men who collected them.  The tales are   
   >    available in more than 100 translations and have been adapted   
   >    to popular films.  In the mid 20th century the tales were used   
   >    as propaganda by the Third Reich.  Later in the 20th century   
   >    psychologists such as Bruno Bettelheim reaffirmed the value of   
   >    the work, in spite of the cruelty and violence in the original   
   >    versions of some of the tales that were sanitized.  Name the   
   >    *men who collected* these folk tales.   
      
   The Grimm Brothers   
      
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