“Honestly, I've been making up everything as I go. When you're riding the ice pony, you see a lot of talking frogs.”

—  Jim Henson

[The New York Times, October 24, 2015, Jim Henson, Puppeteer, Dies; The Muppets' Creator Was 53, Eleanor, Blau, May 17, 1990, http://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/17/obituaries/jim-henson-puppeteer-dies-the-muppets-creator-was-53.html?pagewanted=all]

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