Why Sensitivity Is the Key to Realness: the Search for the Real in a World of Artificiality
The soul yearns for the real every moment.
What makes Hans Christian Andersen a genius is his ability to capture absolute metaphors — striking comparisons that cannot be easily interpreted in multiple ways. One such metaphor is the metaphor of sensitivity in “The Princess and the Pea.”
A prince is searching for a real princess. As a child, I wondered, “What does he mean by ‘real’?” …
