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Hmm. Like, how different? On the surface of it, John Jensen would appear to be your average Norwegian crocodile – reading the paper at breakfast, taking the bus to the office, duck taping his insecurities where no one can see them – though what makes this finally very different from your average meditation on not-fitting-in is John Jensen seems the single Norwegian citizen to notice, fretting compulsively in the mirror, at family photographs (“Maybe I was adopted.”), and staring in bed at the ceiling. What’s that book folded across his reptilian chest? Why, The Stranger by Albert Camus. With deadpan apercus – “You see strange things in an emergency room.” – a heroic elephant doctor pulling double duty as a therapist, and a heartwarming wave from the king. Wallflowers take note: “Anyone who wears a bow is not afraid.”
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