"He sees you when you're sleeping
He knows when you're awake
He knows if you've been bad or good..."
This sounds as if it were a description of God. But, no. They meant Santa Claus of all things. Since when is Santa Claus omniscient and omnipresent? I think someone forgot to teach me that when I was growing up, as so many other children are taught.
Somehow I do not find that a bad thing. I much prefer the legend of Saint Nicholas, which was in some almost-inexplicable way corrupted into the modern idea of Santa Claus. However, it is a great pity that this happened, as not only does Saint Nicholas have a better sense of fashion and a better sense of justice and generosity, but he is also the patron saint of pirates and sailors.
I may say they are equating Santa Claus with God, but some can derive an entirely different conclusion from the same set of facts (from Wikipedia):
A Calvin and Hobbes strip implied that if Santa "sees you when you're sleeping [and] knows when you're awake," he must be a "CIA spook."
2 comments:
Does the very name of Santa not come from some Northern European way of saying Saint Nicholas? Santa Nicklaus or some such?
It does, I understand.
Though, the technical term for the gradual changing of a word or phrase from its original pronounciation to its modern pronounciation is "corruption." see: Istambul, corrupt pronounciation of Constantinople.
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