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Man Without a Spleen
man without a spleen
also: человек без селезенки
A Russian folk idiom for an even-tempered, unflappable person, twisted here into a visual pun on "putting a point/full stop" (tochka) resembling the small, dot-like organ.
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- My Ranks and Titles §15 a man without a spleen
A folk idiom for an even-tempered, unflappable person (the spleen being seat of melancholy in old humoral thinking); here twisted into a pun on 'putting a point/full stop' (tochka), since a spleen resembles a dot-like organ.