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Is this a reference to the guillotine?
"It is likely enough that, rooted in the woods of France and Norway, there were growing trees, when that sufferer was put to death, already marked by the Woodman, Fate, to come down and be sawn into boards, to make a certain movable framework with a sack and a knife in it, terrible in history."
Is this a reference to the guillotine?
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I re-read about the first half of the book once I finished it. And I'd say yes, this is definatly referring to the guillotine, just as he refers to the carts sitting at a farm that will one day rumble through the streets of Paris, carrying prisioners to their deaths.
Mar 24, 2010 4:44 pm
by beamcq
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