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No Such Thing As A Fish
Popeye - The Cartoon Character
Popeye is a suppressed desire. He personifies the desire most of us have both to be strong and to sock some of the unpleasant people we encounter. Although Popeye himself says he would never hit anyone as hard as he could because it's wrong to kill people. There was a psychoanalytic piece done about him in an American paper in 1932. People complained about the fighting because he was teaching kids to fight. And so after that, he carried on fighting, but only for the honour of old ladies and children. Later on in the cartoons, he stopped eating the spinach directly out of the can. So you know he would like squeeze the can, but apparently they were worried that
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