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Old 11-13-2020, 03:15 PM   #136 (permalink)
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It's a Procrustean Bed*. Alter you** use case and submit***.
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procrustes
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A Procrustean bed is an arbitrary standard to which exact conformity is forced.. In Edgar Allan Poe's influential crime story "The Purloined Letter" (1844), the private detective Dupin uses the metaphor of a Procrustean bed to describe the Parisian police's overly rigid method of looking for clues.;
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