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| New Endings For Classic Bedtime Stories |
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| ...Mrs Eater, while confined to her pumpkin shell, decided to take advantage of this uninterrupted stretch of solitude. She wrote eloquently of her plight. Soon a famous novelist took an interest in her work, campaigned for her release, and had Peter's nose broken by an aquainance. The resulting book, No Man Can Squash My Spirit!, made the bestseller list and she eventually got to host her own show on Court TV. |
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| ...Then the little boy cried, "The Emperor is not wearing any clothes!" The crowd gasped. The Emperor was shaken for a moment but replied, "Of course I'm naked-it's a conceptual art piece about the transparent nature of reality." And since he WAS the Emperor, and had all the money in the kingdom, everyone agreed that it was a very brilliant work and that their leader was in excellent shape for a man of his age. They rejoiced. And a wordy and dense analysis of the event was published in a glossy international art journal and got its editor a juicy curatorship in New York. He was subsequently arrested for wearing the Emperor's new clothes to a pretigious preparatory school for boys. |
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