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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              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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