When the puppet found out who was pulling

When the puppet found out who was pulling the strings, his jaw dropped to the floor. Every aspect of his life, from breakfast at

Tiffanys was controlled by the Kite Flying Association of Uganda. Although they were experienced in pulling strings the puppet did not feel confident he was being

handled by his agent, Geppetto, as well as he should have been. He felt stiff and unnatural...wooden-ish. Truth be told, he didn't want to do the show in Uganda in the first place,

-is tuna sandwich. Mr. Geppetto would punish Pinocchio if he came home without having eaten the non-dessert portion of his lunch. In Africa, Pinocchio's nose was used as a totem

that enabled the natives to communicate with the gods, for example asking for rain in dry seasons. Here, however, his nose was something that made Pinocchio a slave to Mr Geppetto

and it didn't need the nose ring to make it fact. Besides everybody knew the growing nose was code for what they couldn't say openly. The 2 big circles at the end were not eyes but

The alchemist from Rotterdam deciphered them. It took almost four years but here is what Professor Ziti wrote on vellum, in his spindly script: there are several reasons the nose

might die before the rest of the face, as in the case of frostbite or gangrene, but never in all my days have I seen a nose that was born before the rest of the face. I will take

a frostbitten, gangrened dead small nose over a Karl Malden/Jimmy Durante nose that lives forever any day of the week. When it comes to the appendage department..I ain't tripping!