Samples of things like rubber penises, plastic Halloween eyeballs, garden gnomes and lawn flamingoes--the history of man insisting on making things made to look like other things. Electric lights shaped like a taxi-dancer's leg, that sort of thing. Rubber dog turds, plastic fried eggs.

Then in another section, artifacts from all the completely arbitrary and artificial belief systems from Krishna to Father Patrick in the boy's room.

You've got half the Smithsonian filled right there. A wing dedicated to bizare cross-breeding or genetic experiments like Dolly the sheep.

Maybe a room dedicated to Barnum;s side-show exhibits, genuine or artificial.


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