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A sorrowful Sissy
had her thumbs transport her
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to the one person she knew
who might disarm her...
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or should we say,
"disthumb" her.
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I'm afraid
I can't help you.
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- Oh Doctor!
- Please, child.
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Don't be dismayed.
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We all have our problems
these days.
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But as the painter
Van Gogh said,
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"Mysteries remain, sorrow
or melancholy remains,
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but the everlasting
negative is balanced
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by the positive work which
thus is achieved after all."
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I don't suppose that means
very much to you.
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I have retired... a victim
of a malpractice suit.
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- Oh...
- My last operation
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was a simple reworking
of a boy's nose.
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I was a bit
overenthusiastic,
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succumbing to my supressed
artistic drives,
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I sculpted,
in living flesh,
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on the face
of little Bernie Schwartz
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the world's first
cubistic nose.
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Ah, the thumb!
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The thumb, the thumb,
the thumb.
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The thumb, the thumb,
the thumb.
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One of evolution's
most ingenious inventions.
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A built-in tool,
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sensitive to texture, contour,
and temperature.
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An alchemical lever,
the secret key to technology,
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the link between
the mind and art.
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The humanizing device.
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The marmoset and the lemur
are thumbless.
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None of the new world monkeys
has opposable thumbs.
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The spider monkey's thumbs
are absent
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or reduced
to a tiny tubercle.
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The thumbs
of the potto are set
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at an angle of 180 degrees
to the other digits.
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And so...
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you are demanding at last,
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the privileges of thumb that nature
has perversely denied you?