Col Pot said a while back that people didn't read the detail of what politicians promised at election time. Perhaps he was simply reflecting his own approach to (ignoring) reality.More than likely, then, that he will not 'read the detail' of the letters that even the We(s)t Australian couldn't avoid printing today in response to his moaning about grumpy (aka ungrateful) people in yesterday's paper.
If there is a 'guillotine for an emperor', let's seek out our own Madame Defarge, who famously knitted during public executions in Charles Dickens' novel, A Tale of Two Cities'.
It seems that the knitting represented the fact that they were not women of leisure like the upper classes being executed. They needed to spend all available times knitting garments for their families. Perhaps there is a message here, also, for the elitist Abbott government in Canberra.
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