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the axe handle: a global survey

Burma:

The colonialist bloc and national traitor axe-handles instigated mass protests in September.

Axe-handles and destructive elements, under the pretext of democracy and human rights, are attempting to obstruct the government's endeavours towards ensuring food and social needs of its people.

The people of the country have strongly pledged to safeguard the nation against destructive threats of negative-viewed axe-handles in the country, and the neo-colonialists.

Those who rely on America are axe-handles.

Cambodia:

A common form of execution was by axe handles to the back of the neck. That saved ammunition.

Russia:

You will have against you a country of almost a thousand million people, the like of which has never yet gone to war in the history of the world. . . .

As our proverb has it: as the forest grew, so the axe handle grew with it. In this case, nine hundred million axe handles.

(from Solzhenitsyn's 1974 "Letter to [the] Soviet Leaders," 1974)

Norway:

How do you do, axe handle.

(also Finland)

California, USA:

Look: We'll shape the handle
By checking the handle
Of the axe we cut with

The model is indeed near at hand

(from Gary Snyder's "Axe Handles")

posted by TiR at 7:01 AM