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<p>[QUOTE="KylieS, post: 9434360, member: 22292"]I'm not reading these as god figures - they just look like they're tying one on. The crossed sticks probably don't mean what they'd mean as a Christian symbol; it could be this is just to show impolite behaviour (for example it's a rude use of chopsticks to cross them) though it kind of looks like he's beating time for the dancer. There might be some extra symbolism involved, but I would read this as a general scene of drunken mayhem where they are all acting debauched and insalubrious.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="KylieS, post: 9434360, member: 22292"]I'm not reading these as god figures - they just look like they're tying one on. The crossed sticks probably don't mean what they'd mean as a Christian symbol; it could be this is just to show impolite behaviour (for example it's a rude use of chopsticks to cross them) though it kind of looks like he's beating time for the dancer. There might be some extra symbolism involved, but I would read this as a general scene of drunken mayhem where they are all acting debauched and insalubrious.[/QUOTE]
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