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   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 3 Jun 2024 04:38:14 -0000 (UTC), Don  wrote:   
      
   >Petertrei wrote:   
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   >Cookie's apron is cringe-worthy. But sometimes you must pander to   
   >readers. In this case to readers who, at best, recognize only one   
   >symbol: the apron.   
      
   And a cook wearing an apron is so totally unheard that it /must/ be a   
   symbol of something, right? No cook in all of recorded history ever   
   wore an apron unless it was symbolic?   
      
   Given their origin (historical or mythological, doesn't matter), I   
   would say that a bricklayers' apron and a cook's apron are similar but   
   nonetheless distinct.   
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   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
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