The Elephant Man
'Blunt-rooted Guerande' or 'Oxheart', the catalogue said "this unique stump rooted variety may grow as wide as it is long."
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The Siamese Twins
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Amazing Half Man
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The Bearded Lady
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Tom Thumb
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About 10 years ago I saw Todd Brownings 1932 film 'Freaks' when the censors finally allowed it to be shown on TV. During the course of the one hour film, the so-called circus 'freaks' become the protagonists we all root for and the 'normal' people end up behaving and then looking like monsters/freaks.
I guess I start to look at those uniformly shaped clones in the carrot department of the supermarket in just the same way now. Vive la difference !
4 comments:
did you know vegetable comes from the latin vegetare= 'to animate, enliven'??
thus to 'vegetate' is not what you think....
siamese twins carrots are really a pair of bloomers..
Blimey!!!
If I grew any as wonderful as that I'd probably want to have them stuffed and put in a glass case on the mantelpiece.
Funny you should say that, it was my thought exactly. I phoned the Natural History Museum for tips on preserving or sources for formaldehyde and all they could recommend was white spirits. The down side being eventual loss of colour. So I made a mould of the 'Elephant man' and cast him in resin. It makes a rather unique paperweight.
I have now read every post.
Wonderful!
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