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[[File:Fontish weaponry.png|450px|thumb|center|[[Winthrop Grumman]] and [[A. J. N. Calder]] in the Royal Contrarian Society’s performance of {{dsh}}, 1926.]] | [[File:Fontish weaponry.png|450px|thumb|center|[[Winthrop Grumman]] and [[A. J. N. Calder]] in the Royal Contrarian Society’s performance of {{dsh}}, 1926.]] | ||
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Once in a long while<ref>Once every three or four days, about.</ref> you see a giveaway. A tell: a knowing look, a sly wink, fingers crossed behind the back, a stray wire, a stage-hand scampering away a moment too late to beat the rising curtain — just enough to wonder: is this whole thing, secretly, a gigantic ''have''? Are we stooges? Have we all been fitted up, Truman Burbank-style, in some epochal, multi-decade-long [[Game For A Laugh]]? Is the benign creator playing with us, for sport, like flies to wanton boys? | Once in a long while<ref>Once every three or four days, about.</ref> you see a giveaway. A tell: a knowing look, a sly wink, fingers crossed behind the back, a stray wire, a stage-hand scampering away a moment too late to beat the rising curtain — just enough to wonder: is this whole thing, secretly, a gigantic ''have''? Are we stooges? Have we all been fitted up, Truman Burbank-style, in some epochal, multi-decade-long [[Game For A Laugh]]? Is the benign creator playing with us, for sport, like flies to wanton boys? |