I was back in BAM today and thank goodness someone vacuumed the floor. Anywho, I stumbled upon a new cover by Coralie Bickford-Smith for Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities. I've never read any Dickens myself because I like to stay happy, but now I'm curious, is there any knitting in this novel?UPDATE: Ali says there is lots of knitting and "it's all metaphorical and shit."
There's this site called Wikipedia...you might have heard of it. :-P
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She is arguably the main villain of the book..
Defarge represents one aspect of the Fates. The Moirae (the Fates as represented in Greek mythology) used yarn to measure out the life of a man, and cut it to end it; Defarge knits, and her knitting secretly encodes the names of those people she will have killed."
Okay, snotty-pants.
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