quinta-feira, novembro 26, 2009
Fabrication, fiction
"Tradition has it that George Washington, chopped down a cherry tree in his youth.
[...] Mason Locke Weems [a bookseller] first wrote about the incident.
According to Weems young George had a new hatchet [and] gives the tree a good whack and chops it down. His father sees the damaged tree and asks his son if he knows who did the deed. [...]
"I can't tell a lie, Pa; you know I can't tell a lie. I did cut it with my hatchet." [...]
explaining that by George being honest about the situation he has well paid his father for the ruined tree. [...]
It is generally believed today that the entire story was a fabrication by Weems".
http://americanhistory.suite101.com/article.cfm/washingtonscherrytree
"In 1940 […] Mikhail Zoschenko published his “Stories about Lenin” - a set of fiction short-stories abridged for children, with Vladimir Lenin as the main character […] illustrating a virtue. […]
The very first short-story called “Decanter” went back to [when] young Volodia […] occasionally broke a decanter. When asked neither Lenin nor the children he played with admitted the fault. Fortunately no punishment followed but Lenin’s remorse was torturing him for the next two months until he finally confessed to his mother.
And only after that he managed to have a good sleep".
http://sovietposter.blogspot.com/2007/09/how-to-raise-child-like-lenin.html
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[...] Mason Locke Weems [a bookseller] first wrote about the incident.
According to Weems young George had a new hatchet [and] gives the tree a good whack and chops it down. His father sees the damaged tree and asks his son if he knows who did the deed. [...]
"I can't tell a lie, Pa; you know I can't tell a lie. I did cut it with my hatchet." [...]
explaining that by George being honest about the situation he has well paid his father for the ruined tree. [...]
It is generally believed today that the entire story was a fabrication by Weems".
http://americanhistory.suite101.com/article.cfm/washingtonscherrytree
"In 1940 […] Mikhail Zoschenko published his “Stories about Lenin” - a set of fiction short-stories abridged for children, with Vladimir Lenin as the main character […] illustrating a virtue. […]
The very first short-story called “Decanter” went back to [when] young Volodia […] occasionally broke a decanter. When asked neither Lenin nor the children he played with admitted the fault. Fortunately no punishment followed but Lenin’s remorse was torturing him for the next two months until he finally confessed to his mother.
And only after that he managed to have a good sleep".
http://sovietposter.blogspot.com/2007/09/how-to-raise-child-like-lenin.html
