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Carpal Tunnel
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Carpal Tunnel
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This game sounds like fun. But I know how I could win.Do you?
A new source of noise and movement was added to the crowd.
The sellers of moccoletti entered on the scene. The moccoli,
or moccoletti, are candles which vary in size from the
pascal taper to the rushlight, and which give to each actor
in the great final scene of the Carnival two very serious
problems to grapple with, -- first, how to keep his own
moccoletto alight; and secondly, how to extinguish the
moccoletti of others. The moccoletto is like life: man has
found but one means of transmitting it, and that one comes
from God. But he has discovered a thousand means of taking
it away, and the devil has somewhat aided him. The
moccoletto is kindled by approaching it to a light. But who
can describe the thousand means of extinguishing the
moccoletto? -- the gigantic bellows, the monstrous
extinguishers, the superhuman fans. Every one hastened to
purchase moccoletti -- Franz and Albert among the rest.
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Pooh-Bah
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Pooh-Bah
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I am assuming that the carnival is in Venice. What a scene that would be. Masked characters chaosing about trying to protect their own small lights. The costumes with swirling capes and flickering shadows filled with the scent and smoke of the guttering or extinguished candles. You wouldn't need wine to be drunk on such an occasion.
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