Literalism surrealism

Sometimes, there's nothing like injecting a little literalism into your interpretation to make it surreal.


But with fairy tales, literalism is guaranteed to make your interpretation surreal, as Ursula Vernon discovered for herself.


I am sure this was not the way Andersen imagined it when he borrowed the three round-eyed dogs for his version of The Tinderbox... but then Heiri ("Heinrich") Strub comes along and interprets the "eyes as big as the Round Tower" literally and blows everyone's brain up:

Ah, literalism... I love you.


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