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Freak Show
Freak is an old english verb, am frican, which meant to dance. Around the mid sixteenth century, it a sudden change of mind. The idea was that nature behaves unpredictably and runs off course. It's now actually a term of approbation. We mentioned barnum last time, didn't we? And how, although he's been made so famous through film, through books, et cetera,. how he was a very unorthodox, and some might say, very unlikable character.
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