Friday, December 22 2000

Nicholas of Canberra : $bells->jingle;

my $we = new People;
my $snow = new Enviroment ( type => 'cold' );
my $sleigh = new Transport ( for => $snow );

$sleigh->puller( new Horse );
$sleigh->dash( $snow );

$we->go( $fields, 'over' );
$we->do( 'laugh' );
$bell->ring;
$spirits->set( bright => 1 );
$we->set_fun( 'lots' ) while ( 
     $we->ride and $we->sing( about => 'sleighing' );

$bells->jingle; $bells->jingle;
$bells->jingle while ( $we->travel );
$we->set_fun( 'lots' ) while ( $we->in($sleigh) );
$bells->jingle; $bells->jingle;
$bells->jingle while ( $we->travel );
$we->set_fun( 'lots' ) while ( $we->in($sleigh) );

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Tricia Cusack : "The snowman is, of course, white and invariably male.

[His] ritual location in the semi-public space of garden or field imaginatively reinforces a spatial social system, marking women's proper sphere as the domestic-private and men's as the commercial-public. It presents an image, however jocular, of a masculine control of public space. ... Like Father Christmas, he is round, fat and smiling, suggesting overindulgence. The classic carnival figure is a fat, lusty eater and drinker." Indeed.

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