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Story · Denmark · 1837

The Emperor's New Clothes

Name: The Emperor's New Clothes scores 65 — Live Historic
Item: The Emperor's New Clothes
Rating: 65
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65Worth an evening.

Swindlers sell an empty cloth, and the adults stay quiet because they are afraid.

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Swindlers sell a cloth that the unfit cannot see. No one will admit the emperor is naked. A child says it. Hans Christian Andersen, 1837. A child can hear it. I don't need a second meaning. The fraud is the cloth, and the court agrees to see it. I was tired, and the story did not ask me to admire the emperor.

The adults fail because they are afraid to be the first to speak. That is the sentence I want in the room. This is not a joke about fashion. The child risks sounding foolish. Everyone else risks being called unfit for the place they hold. If we read it this week, we name the fear. The cloth was never there. The silence was the whole court.

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Keep The Emperor's New Clothes in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 65. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry is the thin one.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

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Jane Eyre

78 instead of 65

Jane Eyre is still a story film, and it scores 78 instead of 65. What you gain is industry: She earns her bread.

The eight

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Industry
The swindlers' work is selling a cloth that does not exist.
6
Household
A child, not a courtier, is the one who says he is naked.
6
Piety
Fear, not conscience, keeps the adults from saying what they see.
8
Courage
The child speaks; the adults will not risk being called unfit.
8
Republic
A court owes the city the truth and pays that debt with silence.
6
Temperance
The emperor's want for a splendid cloth is what lets the swindle start.
9
Truth
The cloth is a lie, and a child says plainly that he is naked.
5
Stewardship
Left behind: one true sentence, and a court that was too afraid to say it.

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Story · Britain · 1877

Black Beauty

65Worth an evening.

The horse tells it, and the kind hands don't cancel the cruel ones.

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Anna Sewell lets the horse tell it. He passes from kind hands to cruel ones. The work of a horse is treated as a life, not a machine. The whip is the thing the book is against. A child can read it, and then wants to know why anyone would hurt an animal that was doing the job.

I don't dress that up. It is a child's book with a bill for cruelty, from 1877. The kind hands are not the whole story, or there would be nothing to argue. If we read it this week, we stay long enough to meet the cruel hands, and we say the horse's work counts as a life.

Journal

Keep Black Beauty in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 65. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household is the thin one.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

75 instead of 65

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is still a novel film, and it scores 75 instead of 65. What you gain is household: She takes the child out of the marriage the diary has told.