It's all so enjoyable that one risks missing the paradox that this highly symbolic language, as indispensable to the process of marketing politicians as to selling consumer goods, is equally the syntax of manipulation and propaganda, the sine qua non of those 30-second commercials that have debased political discourse around the world.
Soon she was learning the art of ikat in which women dye a pattern onto the yarn before weaving it and discovering the symbolic function of both the design and the ikat process itself.
Those words helped bring the community together - a process of reconciliation that continued this year with the Queen's visit to Enniskillen and her symbolic walk across the road from the Church of Ireland Cathedral to St Michael's Catholic Church.