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These included a prohibition on White House meddling in Justice Department prosecutions that took on canonical status.

To them, a Colombian actor wasn’t qualified to play a princess with a canonical history of having “skin as white as snow.”

Each is a chapter in an ongoing canonical saga whose overall arc does not much interest me, especially given how many times these worlds have been rewritten, rebooted and retconned over the decades, how much there is to keep track of and how short life is.

The canonical, almost cartoonish image of red-and-white mushrooms conjured when thinking of Alice’s adventures may have inspired Santa Claus’ sleigh ride.

"We thought one of the knobs that evolution might have turned was by upregulating E2F7, to change the canonical cell cycle into the multiciliation cycle," said Reiter.