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283: No Such Thing As A Lost Shadow

No Such Thing As A Fish

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What's Happening in the Nineteenth Century?

Most shadow puppet shapes were invented by the same man, really. He was called felicien trui, and the art was called chinese shadows or embre chinois. And he wrote a book saying, i can do everything. Eour children's birthday parties have always been the same shadow puppe tree. They didn't use their hands, cause they made wooden puppet oin cast their sasos the plagiarist. Even the mongols of marauding ases had an invading horde of shadow popers to keep them entertained. Wooh! Do you know why they've invented buildings, skyscrapers that don't have shadows? That's not according to superstition

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