by nomad » May 19th, 2010, 1:31 pm
I also saw the "cheated lady" as someone who thinks you can buy anything with money. I assumed that she, like the narrator, is a new arrival. Her reaction would seem to indicate that she didn't yet know that money was worthless. And many people don't understand that money's value is linked to the work or product it represents; they think it has intrinsic value in itself. So even if she knew that you can just think it up, it doesn't necessarily follow that she would understand it had no value. She would just think, "Sweet! I'm rich!"
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"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best -- " and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.