“Everything Larsen does,” said the lord & lady, “they beat a drum for! What a happy man! Why, we should always be proud to have him!”
But they weren’t proud at all. They felt that they were the master & mistress. They could give Larsen notice, but they didn’t do it. They were good people. And there are so many good people of their sort, & that is gratifying to every Larsen.
Well, that’s the story of “The Gardener and the Lord and Lady.”
Now you can think it over.
The Gardener and the Lord and Lady is a story by Hans Andersen. And I was just wondering that we have read such stories as kids but did it make any difference? It’s very true: “And there are so many good people of their sort, & that is gratifying to every Larsen.” In fact this will never change, cause good people are the ones responsible for most injustice done in this world. Good people not just look down on servants, they also look down on anyone who just doesn’t fall under the category of what they might regard as worthy of acknowledgment. Existence of humans has always been taken for granted by other humans. And these complexes can be seen everywhere. Actually the concept of comparison wouldn’t have existed, had there been no complexes.
But the question is: what’s the point of teaching a thing that would never be acknowledged? And what about those who did grasp it at a very early age? Sometimes humans really embarrass me. I’m just not in the mood of giving examples of those wannabes & fakers who think that speaking in a particular language & pretending to be god-knows-what (by telling us 24/7 that they own Blackberry) would make them gods & goddesses (of the Dirt I suppose). You know people also have boobs & dicks & the big O could also happen, but I guess there is no need to tell everything. Although I said I was not in the mood of giving examples, but I have given a few lousy ones.
By the way, we were also taught 2 more things by Hans Andersen:
“The stars twinkled above all the houses, above those of the rich & those of the poor, just as bright, just as lovely.”
The Candles
“Shall we read the story again from the beginning? It will be no different.”
The Snail & the Rosebush
No wonder Hans Andersen makes people sad. It’s true that his stories don’t take place in fairytale world - but right here, in reality.
