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Augustus was a chubby lad; Fat, ruddy cheeks Augustus had: And everybody saw with joy The plump and hearty, healthy boy. He ate and drank as he was told, And never let his soup get cold. But one day, one cold winter's day, He screamed out,'Take the soup away! O take the nasty soup away! I won't have any soup today.'

- Heinrich Hoffmann
  Struwwelpeter,'Augustus'.

Porque todo es irreal en este cuento. Nada sucedio   como se indica. Hechos y sitios se deformaron por el empen‹  o de tocar la verdad mediante una ficcio  n, una mentira. Todo irreal, nada sucedio   como aqu | se refiere. Pero fue un pobre intento de contribuir a que el gran crimen nunca se repita. For everything in this story is unreal. Nothing happened the way it was suggested. Facts and places were distorted by that persistent desire to touch the truth by means of fiction, a lie. All of it is unreal; nothing happened the way it istold here.It was a poorattempt to help ensure that the great crime is never repeated.

-Jose   Emilio Pacheco
  Morira  s lejos (translated asYouWill Die in a Distant Land, 1991).

I have not told even thehalf of thethings that I have seen.

- Marco Polo
c.1320  On being accused of exaggeration in his accounts of China. Quoted in R H Poole and P Finch (eds) Newnes Pictorial Knowledge (1950), vol.2.