When Benedict entered stage-right at 10.40am, the huge hall erupted in cheers.
Over 500 counting staff, seated at tables across the huge hall, were piling up Scotland's future in front of them.
In front of him in the huge hall were 3,467 delegates, called in May to the first congress of the ruling Workers Partyy since 1980, before Kim Jong Un was even born.
The far lights were switched off — you could not see the edges of the huge hall, and there was no one to ask which way to go.
In that case, maybe the reconstruction of the huge hall alone, with an honest redesign of the remaining interior, would be a compromise that honoured both restoration fetishists and William Morris purists?
The floor of the huge hall was covered with row upon row of large, three-tiered carts laden with buckets of roses, tulips, lilies, hyacinths, lilacs, orchids and potted plants.
"Instead, we could enjoy the opportunity of a long-running show, which is when you can really increase your ability to concentrate and listen," said Mr. Page, dressed in black for the interview in the flying circle mezzanine of his old "Spider-Man" theater, his voice echoing occasionally in the huge hall.
Runway shows, Bartlett writes, often resembled party congresses, as with the Fourth Annual Soviet Dress Contest, held in Prague in 1953, where "the catwalk occupied only a small part of the huge hall, for the space was dominated by an enormous podium, which accommodated the political elites".
