apr 14, 1818 - rip van winkle

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written by washington irving, man falls asleep for the whole revolutionary war, shows how quickly time passes during the war.
“A little german superstition about the Emperor frederick der Rothbard and the Kypphauser mountain”
Story has been Americanized by Irving from Germany
Passed on by german immigrants
“That there had been a revolitionary war- that the country had thrown off the yoke of old England- and that instead of being a subject of his majesty George the third, he was now a gee of the the United States… could go in and out whenever he pleased, without dreading the tyranny of Dame Van Winkle”
Metaphor that Dame is Britain, she dies during the revolutionary war; now America is free

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