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Kannitverstan
''Kannitverstan'' is a short story by the German author Johann Peter Hebel, which first appeared as a calendar story in 1808 in ''Rheinländischer Hausfreund'' (Rhenish family friend).
== Plot ==
A young workman from Tuttlingen (then part of the Duchy of Württemberg) visited the cosmopolitan city of Amsterdam for the first time in his life and was impressed by a particularly stately home and a large ship laden with precious commodities. He innocently asked people about the owners of the house and the boat and both times the answer was "Kannitverstan", which means "I can not understand you". The simple-minded workman, however, believed that it was the name of a man called "Kannitverstan", and was impressed by the supposed Mr. Kannitverstan's wealth, and at the same time felt victimized in the face of his own poverty. Later in the day, he observed a funeral procession and asked one of the mourners who the deceased was. When he received the answer "Kannitverstan" he mourned for the late Mr. Kannitverstan, but at the same time felt very light-hearted, because he realized that death knows no social differences and everything in life is fleeting. Thus, the workman suffered his own poverty much better.
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