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Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:11 am

If I had been thinking more cleverly (?) yesterday, the first two sentences of the third paragraph would have read as follows:

"Get to training, old friend.  The Tinman never did find a heart."

(After all, in the book(s), he got "only ... a placebo heart made of velvet and filled with sawdust".  And in the 1939 movie, he got essentially the same thing: a velvet heart (if I recall correctly).)

However, if one looks to the original books, then my original phraseology is absolutely spot on.  In the books, the "Tin Woodman" started out as a human woodsman, who keeps chopping off parts of himself which get replaced with tin.  However, when the tinsmith had to replace the portion of the body where the heart lies, the tinsmith forgot to include a heart.  So, in the books, "Nick Chopper" does have "less heart than he used to".  On the other hand, "Tin Man", "Tinman", "Tin Woodsman" were never used in the original Oz books; it was always "Tin Woodman".  The other three "names" come from movie, play, or comic strip / cartoon adaptations.  Sometimes Wikipedia is interesting.

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