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Call boy

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A boy who calls the actors in a theater; a boy who transmits the orders of the captain of a vessel to the engineer, helmsman, etc.
A waiting boy who answers a cal, or cames at the ringing of a bell; a bell boy.

See also: Call Call



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When staging encounters between the mysterious alien and things we know from our ordinary world - including a green lizard and a blindfolded, almost-naked call boy - is the psychiatrist merely enacting her own clashing desires?
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