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I don't advise a haircut, man. All hairdressers are in the employment of the government. Hairs are your aerials. They pick up signals from the cosmos, and transmit them directly into the brain. This is the reason bald-headed men are uptight.
— Danny · Withnail and I
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An editorial interpretation.
Danny explains his advice against a haircut through an elaborate theory about hair receiving cosmic signals. The claim extends from government employment to an explanation of other people’s temperament. Its accumulating connections make an ordinary grooming decision depend on an extraordinary account of how the world works.
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