23 May 2013, 21:23
@BP
My apologies - It wasn't meant as a personal insult but as an addition to the observation of Charles Baudelaire about the women at public executions. In Charles Dickens's novel A Tale of Two Cities, the character Madame Defarge is a particularly bloodthirsty tricoteuse during the Reign of Terror. She and her fellow guillotine-watchers encrypt the names of those executed (and other information) into their hand-knit goods by using different sequences of stitches, creating a sort of Morse code from yarn.
Once again - my apologies
My apologies - It wasn't meant as a personal insult but as an addition to the observation of Charles Baudelaire about the women at public executions. In Charles Dickens's novel A Tale of Two Cities, the character Madame Defarge is a particularly bloodthirsty tricoteuse during the Reign of Terror. She and her fellow guillotine-watchers encrypt the names of those executed (and other information) into their hand-knit goods by using different sequences of stitches, creating a sort of Morse code from yarn.
Once again - my apologies