But just then, Nurse Norma chanced upon the scene. One might wonder how one chances upon the scene way out there in the Salt Flats, but that's not important right now.
Norma, having watched "StarTrek: In Search of Spock" 267 times in succession, knew that cathartic expressionists were capable of anything. One might wonder what a "cathartic expressionist" is, and what that has to do with this story ... but, alas, that's not important right now.
Norma grabbed the thing that was once our beloved Muffy, sprayed some WD-40 on it, polished it with a little Turtle-Wax, then rolled it up and inserted it into one of those mailers you get for posters.
As a last tribute to Muffy, Norma put sufficient postage on the tubular mailer and sent it off to Kuala-Lampur, where the great Doctor Janice Shell was in residence. One might wonder how the great Dr. Shell was in residence in Kuala-Lampur instead of at her home town of Milan, Italy, but that's not important right now.
Dr. Shell, an expert in cathartic expressionism, was quite taken by the effort that Nurse Norma had exhibited in saving the thin shell (no relation to Dr. Shell, by the way) of our beloved Muffy. Normally Dr. Shell wouldn't get personally involved in these last ditch efforts to revive a dear departed. However, in this case she made an exception. She removed Muffy from the mailer tube and ironed her out flat again (actually, the person wielding the iron was a handsome stud of a man called "Perfect Eric", but that's not important right now).
Dr. Shell then proceeded to follow the handbook she herself had written just a few years earlier during that Iranian situation when cathartic expressionists were thought to be mere pawns in the overall scheme of world distress. The book changed the world's view of cathartic expressionists when the ... well, that's not really important right now.
After Dr. Shell mashed up two turnips and combined the mash with some sodium bicarbonate, she reached for her CxBS chip ... the one used in the now famous Blastomere Separation Process ... only to find that her faithful companion, known only as "E" (why, we don't know, but that's not important right now), had already used the last chip in an aborted attempt to purify the water supply for all of South Africa. It seems the excess saline in the water supply had counteracted the ... oh, never mind ... that's not important right now.
At a loss for words, and knowing that once the process of expressing cathartically is started, the only way to ensure a chance for the dearly departed's reconstitution is to complete the cathartic expressioning process, Dr. Shell removed her tunic, ran out the side door of her laboratory and ... |
