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Procrustes
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Procrustes (prōkrŭs`tēz), in Greek mythology, cruel highwayman. He forced passersby to lie on a very long bed and then stretched them to fit it. Some said that he also had a very short bed; to make passersby fit this he sawed off their legs. Using Procrustes' own villainous methods, Theseus killed him.
Procrustes
robber; stretches or amputates limbs of victims to fit his bed. [Class. Myth.: Zimmerman, 221]
See : Brutality

Procrustes
made travelers fit bed by stretching or lopping off their legs. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 221]

Procrustes 

in ancient Greek mythology, a giant robber who forced travellers to lie down on a bed, cutting off the feet of those who were longer than the bed and stretching out those who were shorter to make them fit the bed’s length; hence his name, which means “he who stretches.” Metaphorically, a “bed of Procrustes,” or “Procrustean bed,” is any artificial means of measure that has no relation to the real meaning of a phenomenon; any forcibly imposed limitation.



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to apply the parrhesia tool, first, to make the suspect betray himself publicly, preferably before the camera eyes shooting their miserable condition and regretful faces for the masses, then, as its natural consequence, to stock themselves with the opportunity of even punishing the renegade in more cruel and serious ways, like realizing their ideal in "Room 101" and put him on the Procrustean bed ultimatly.
it is subject-specific and is not immediately measurable except by a procrustean bed of certain discounted cash flow investment appraisals designed to elucidate it.
The sensitive critic of Shakespeare, as Nuttall demonstrates over and over in his close readings, seems to find that the Bard has always included another layer of complexity in his art that resists the urge of the critic to create a Procrustean bed of meaning.
 
 
 
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