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From: Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Deep focus on Freemason forms found in Forbidden Planet
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2024 16:37:20 -0400
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On 6/3/2024 11:18 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Jun 2024 04:38:14 -0000 (UTC), Don <g@crcomp.net> wrote:
> 
>> Petertrei wrote:
>> <snip>
> 
> <snip much more>
> 
>> Cookie's apron is cringe-worthy. But sometimes you must pander to
>> readers. In this case to readers who, at best, recognize only one
>> symbol: the apron.
> 
> And a cook wearing an apron is so totally unheard that it /must/ be a
> symbol of something, right? No cook in all of recorded history ever
> wore an apron unless it was symbolic?
> 
> Given their origin (historical or mythological, doesn't matter), I
> would say that a bricklayers' apron and a cook's apron are similar but
> nonetheless distinct.

Operative Mason's aprons are quite large, and made of heavy leather
or cloth. Early Freemason's aprons were similar:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Times_of_the_Day#/media/File:Four_Times_of_the_Day_-_Night_-_Hogarth.jpg

Modern operative mason's aprons are still like that:
https://dungarees.com/carhartt-103439-apron?&cs=BRN&size=OFA&cid=1161

The modern speculative Mason's intiatory apron is made of white
lambskin, and much squarer. In American lodges, most sideliners
will be wearing a cloth apron from the lodge stock.

https://dallasmasons.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/1-10.jpg

The young man with the glasses in the front row is wearing a
lambskin apron, and the man to the right of him is wearing a stock
apron. The more fancy ones with blue embroidery are officers.

Cookie's apron isn't all that far from that, but is too large, and
lacking a flap.

Still, Occam's Razor suggests he's wearing it for cooking related
reasons.

pt