Fairy tales are written for children, or are they? Is it possible that there is something for all of us hidden deep within the once upon a times and forever afters?
No one believes everything we hear about things that go on in high places today. Why should it have been any different way back when?
In The Emperor's New Clothes, perhaps we should ask the Emperor himself what happened! Of course some of you will say his version is only a cover up, but then what did he cover up?
It has always been the job of the Ladies League for Decency to keep track of marriages and births, school suspensions and who took too long of a vacation where. Is it any wonder that they might love the idea that a man like the Emperor got his come up-pence pointed out by the purity and innocence of a child? How they must have delighted sitting there in their rocking chairs on their front porches, marking calendars and smiling at the thought of that risque man standing red faced and alone in his room back at the castle!
But if you ask the Emperor he will tell you that his secret wish, all these years that he has been forced to wear all those kingly robes and hot itchy suits is to reveal himself in all his exhibitionist glory! The real man, who would prefer to be running around in his birthday suit playing Adam and Eve in his back garden like William Blake and Catherine, decided to play a most involved practical joke upon his court and his people. One that would allow him to fulfill his dreams for one afternoon and entertain his kingdom for years to come.
Proving, perhaps, that you can please all of the people some of the time, as long as they all don't know it.
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