Knife stories

These stories have their modern counterpart in the belief that the gift of a knife or any cutting instrument will sever the bonds of friendship. Hence on receiving a present of this character ft is usual for the recipient to give the donor a farthing or half-penny the gift is then not a gift it has been purchased. 

The beauty of Honey Ryder doesn t begin and end with her white hipster bikini and conveniently attached knife. No, her appeal runs much deeper than that. For one thing, she has an awesome back-story that involves a murdered marine biologist father and a rape by a landlord. Honey gets revenge on the landlord by sticking a black widow spider under his mosquito net, and it takes the guy a week to die. How bitchin is that So, she s beautiful, independent, and lethal Works for me. 

Is the child howling in the city gate and raging with a knife The story of our common human fate or of lost hope and wasted human life ... 

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