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Author: randomsurfer

Apr 14th 2014 at 9:21:11 PM

The Tin Woodman example is made explicit in ''The Tin Woodman of Oz'', the same book in which he meets the Tin Soldier and Chopfyt (the combined Nick Chopper & Captain Fyter).
::Early in the book The Woodman explains things to a newcomer, Woot:
--->"In the Land of Oz," replied the [Tin Woodman], "no one can ever be killed. A man with a wooden leg or a tin leg is still the same man; and, as I lost parts of my meat body by degrees, I always remained the same person as in the beginning, even though in the end I was all tin and no meat." 
::And the Tin Soldier's story:
--->I was in love with a beautiful Munchkin girl, who lived with a Wicked Witch. The Witch did not wish me to marry the girl, so she enchanted my sword, which began hacking me to pieces. When I lost my legs I went to the tinsmith, Ku-Klip, and he made me some tin legs. When I lost my arms, Ku-Klip made me tin arms, and when I lost my head he made me this fine one out of tin. It was the same way with my body, and finally I was all tin. But I was not unhappy, for Ku-Klip made a good job of me, having had experience in making another tin man before me." 
::The party finds Nick Chopper's old head in a cupboard:
--->"I don't see what right you folks have to disturb my peace and comfort, either." 
--->"You belong to me," the Tin Woodman declared. 
--->"I do not!" 
--->"You and I are one." 
--->"We've been parted," asserted the Head. "It would be unnatural for me to have any interest in a man made of tin. Please close the door and leave me alone."
::Conversely, Chopfyt doesn't know who he was made of ''even though he's got the Tin Soldier's original head''.
--->"Good gracious!" exclaimed Woot. "Then this must be the man whom old Ku-Klip patched together and named Chopfyt."
--->The man now turned toward them, still scowling. 
--->"Yes, that is my name," he said in a voice like a growl, "and it is absurd for you tin creatures, or for anyone else, to claim my head, or arm, or any part of me, for they are my personal property."
--->"You? You're a Nobody!" shouted Captain Fyter. 
--->"You're just a mix-up," declared the Emperor. 
--->...
--->"But, listen, Nimmie Amee!" said the astonished Woot; "he really is both of them, for he is made of their cast-off parts."
--->"Oh, you're quite wrong," declared Polychrome, laughing, for she was greatly enjoying the confusion of the others. "The tin men are still themselves, as they will tell you, and so Chopfyt must be someone else."
--->They looked at her bewildered, for the facts in the case were too puzzling to be grasped at once.