In the early episodes, Edward James Olmos growled and Colin Hanks snivelled as an Apocalypse-addled duo a professor and his flunky who sew together corpse-tableaux from the Book of Revelations.

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Then imagine different pairs of hands trying to sew the quilt together, pulling one bit in one direction, another bit in another.

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This time they did not even try to sew up the summit agenda together in advance.

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"Some of your intestine has gone bad, and we have to cut out the bad part and sew the two good ends together, " the physician explained.

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