"Everyone's heard of 'Hercules, ' 'Hunchback of Notre Dame, ' 'Pocahontas' and 'Beauty and the Beast, "' he said.

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In the 1920s Homo erectus distorted himself a bit, and took to swinging round church towers or chandeliers as the Phantom of the Opera and the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

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Like the Hunchback of Notre-Dame or the Phantom of the Opera, Hugo lives a secret life in a public place a rubbishy room up in the clockworks, where he tinkers with inventions old and new.

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