“The silhouette was named for Etienne de Silhouette, the notoriously stingy finance minister for Louis XV, who ironically was himself incapable of casting a shadow, due to lycanthropy.”
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John Hodgman
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The Areas of My Expertise
Source: The Areas of My Expertise (2005), p. 76
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