[Wonderful Labs] A TWIST IN YOUR WONDER

[Wonderful Labs]

Dear Mister Wonderful,

	What determines whether a person's navel is an "innie" or an "outie"? 
Is it a cosmetic choice that the doctor makes, or does some fundamental
nature of each belly button express itself in a unique way to determine
its ultimate appearance? 

	Do people with "outies" ever get their belly-buttons pierced?

Thanks for your help,
O.M. Bligo
Cuzco, Peru
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Dear Adam N. Eve,

	Here's the problem with outies:  you can't use them to hold the
maraschino cherry.  I suppose one might be able to hollow the cherry,
use the outthrust navel like a hatstand or a pimento, but I just don't
think it's worth the effort.

	Today is the thirteenth day of Wonder, and tomorrow is the Apotheosis. 
We're all buzzing with caffeination and celebration preparation, putting
up the banners, laying down the rubber sheets, buffing the spittoons and
jazzing the lube tubes.  And so when the Mexican Belly Dancers arrived,
we lurched to our feets and asked the lovelies to help with this query,
because we can barely keep our eyeballs in their sockets, much less read.

	The Mistresses of the Midriff told us that yes, indeedy, outies get
piercings, and it looks as odd as you might imagine.  Easier to clean,
though, so slightly less prone to infection, but still.  Freak city. 
Like a blunt worm on a sterling silver hook.

	Innie V. Outie is determined, they say, by the gods.  Apparently they
use the navels as a sort of divine I Ching, picking three mortals at
random to determine the binary code (In=0, Out=1) for the letter to look
up in the Hyper-Codex, which leads them to the Butterfly Selection Wheel
where hungry elephants give piggy-back rides to super turtles who sing 8
line poems which give insight into the cosmic dilemma at hand.  No,
wait.  I think that's just the celebratory mushroom party favors kicking
in.  

	Navels are fractal beauty portraits, determined randomly, unique to the
individual.  Not quite the windows, they are the little security
peepholes of the soul.


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Honey Why

	"Past this town is the rest of the world. What do you 
	think the rest of the world looks like?" 

	- Francesco Dellamorte (Rupert Everett),
	"Dellamorte Dellamore"


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