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AUSSIEMANDIUS - MADAME GUILLOTINE

THE LAST FALL OF THE INTERNATIONAL RAZOR

 

"I tell thee, that although it is a long time on the road, it is on the road and coming. I tell thee it never retreats, and never stops. I tell thee it is always advancing."

 

"Tell the Wind and the Fire where to stop; not me!"

 

Madame Defarge

 

"A Tale Of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens.

 

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This is one of the steel shearing hydraulic accessories that the demolition machines are using to deconstruct the Moorabbin Football Oval stands and outbuildings. Its severely practical construction reminds me of the guillotines that were the official mode of execution in France up until 1977.

 

I have to smile that this brutally efficient eater of metal's factory colour was a cheerful light blue that wouldn't be out of place in an episode of "Bob The Builder."

 

 

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