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Cathode Afterlife

The joyous song and dance man --- deceased and buried in the 1980s --- suddenly now on the tv screen in one of his old movies, tripping "the light fantastic" across the tap dance limelight stage. Ars longo, vita brevis.* A Latin translation of Hippocrates' aphorism from its original Greek, often translated as meaning "Art is long, life is short".

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