Pete C. wrote:
> Nancy Young wrote:
> >
> > Across? Around?
>
> Around each end for clearance and then across row by row. Anal eh?
>

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After Gulliver's visit to the Emperor's palace at Mildendo,
Reldresal, Lilliput's Principal Secretary of Private Affairs, pays a
visit to Gulliver and explains the faction quarrels between the High
Heel Party and the Low Heel Party. The conflict, he says, started over
a religious question: At which end should the faithful break their
eggs: at the big end or at the little end? The Blefuscudians break
theirs, in the original style, at the big end. But, by royal edict, the
Lilliputians must break their eggs at the little end. There are rebels
in Lilliput, Reldresal says, and already 11,000 of them-Big
Endians-have been put to death; others have fled to the court of
Blefuscu. He explains further that the Lilliputians have lost 40 ships
in the war. The dilemma seems hopeless, for Lustrog, the prophet of
their religion, has said, "All true believers shall break their eggs
at the convenient end."