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Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 12:36 PM
Subject: the Bruegel picture
You can see the painting and a schematic
reproduction with numbers that refer to each proverb. Number one, for example,
represents pies or cookies on the roof and this means " abundance" . The proverb
itself is " the cookies are on the roof"... Below there is a broom and it
signals two proverbs " to be married by the broom" ( to live maritally without a
church blessing, not caring for appearances ) or " the broom is at the
door" ( it means the inhabitants of the house are away ), and so on until
number 118!