The Man Who Only Seemed Dead
He carried a rope in his luggage in case his hotel caught fire. He left a note by his bed every night that read "I only appear to be dead." When planning his funeral, his only instruction about the music was that the tempo should suit little steps — because most of the mourners would be children. Hans Christian Andersen: the man who terrified the world into wonder, and spent his whole life quietly terrified.
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