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Sat Mar 26 11:42:38 CDT 2016


The Movies in use by P here may include Charlie Chaplin as Adenoid
Hynkel in his 1940 satire The Great Dictator.



On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> MD---So... why an adenoid (i.e. a tonsil), rather than an appendix or spleen
> or hypothalamus? Why human tissue at all, rather than some other stand-in
> for Osmo's fears? Its slimy protoplasmic aspect led me on first reading to
> think of SF movies:
>
> more to come but remember that Richard Schlubb, when he is brought in to
> loop the history is described as 'adenoidal" .....
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