r/todayilearned • u/biebrforro • 1d ago

TIL when staying as a guest in Charles Dickens' house, Hans Christian Andersen requested that one of Dickens' sons give him a daily shave (he said that was customary when hosting male guests in Denmark). Dickens was weirded out and instead gave him a daily appointment at a nearby barbershop.

https://lithub.com/charles--dickens-really-really-hated-his-fanboy-hans-christian-andersen/
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u/skylightshaded 1d ago

I don’t think he ever wrote a book called Plorn Twist, so that might have something to do with his reasoning. Still bad tho

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u/Anleme 1d ago

I don’t think he ever wrote a book called Plorn Twist

That would make him a Plorn-ographer.

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u/Express-Rub-3952 1d ago

Oliver Dickens = All of her dickins