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My relationship with wilhelm and jacob grimm reaches far back into my childhood. i grew up with grimm's fairy tales. i even saw a theater production of 'tom thumb' during advent at the state theater in danzig, which my mother took me to see.

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My Relationship With Wilhelm And Jacob Grimm

Gunter Grass

My relationship with wilhelm and jacob grimm reaches far back into my childhood. i grew up with grimm's fairy tales. i even saw a theater production of 'tom thumb' during advent at the state theater in danzig, which my mother took me to see.

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I have very happy memories of fairy tales. my mother used to take me to the library in toronto to check out the fairy tales. and she was an actress, so she used to act out for me the different characters in all these fairy tales.

[fairy tales] are like a journey to the woods and the many ways you can get lost. some people say it's not a good idea to read fairy tales to anyone under the age of eight because they are brutal and raw. when i was a kid i often felt that kids's books were speaking down to me, but i never felt that way about fairy tales. they are bloody and scary, but so is life.

Oh the thumb-sucker's thumb may look wrinkled and wet and withered, and white as the snow, but the taste of a thumb is the sweetest taste yet (as only we thumb-sucker's know).

Just as uncle tom, back during slavery used to keep the negroes from resisting the bloodhound or resisting the ku klux klan by teaching them to love their enemies or pray for those who use them despitefully, today martin luther king is just a twentieth-century or modern uncle tom or religious uncle tom, who is doing the same thing today to keep negroes defenseless in the face of attack that uncle tom did on the plantation to keep those negroes defenseless in the face of the attack of the klan in that day.

I think almost everybody enjoyed fairy tales when they were young, tales of witches and ogres and monsters and dragons and so forth. you get a little bit older, you can't read fairy tales any more.

The late john jacob astor, a personage little given to poetic enthusiasm, had no hesitation in pronouncing my first grand point to be prudence; my next, method. i do not speak it in vanity, but simply record the fact, that i was not unemployed in my profession by the late john jacob astor; a name which, i admit, i love to repeat, for it hath a rounded and orbicular sound to it, and rings like unto bullion. i will freely add, that i was not insensible to the late john jacob astor's good opinion.

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