-Peter
On 4/5/06, phanero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
the teeth scrapings of a fictional charlatan
http://www.phaneronoemikon.org/images/3d/chagum.jpg
or another set prop (perhaps an image in a waiting room) for
The Microbe Merchant, or the Girl w/ the Ovaries
(Henry Ceard and H. de Weindel, 1898)
This was the first of offensive Grand Guignol dramas
that truly shocked newspaper critics.
A well-meaning doctor pretends to be a charlatan.
He sells two would-be poisoners fake poison,
and refuses to remove a young woman's ovaries
simply to make her 'safe for love'.. The poisoners
return and threaten to call the police. the young lady
marries the fake fake-doctor.
