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  "thread": {
    "id": 1797,
    "subject": "\"strike\" on the lead weight [Digest urth.v028.n042]",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 3,
    "first": "1999-09-29T14:12:32+00:00",
    "last": "1999-09-30T08:32:38+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0139@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "John Bishop",
        "address": "jbishop at blkbrd.zko.dec.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-09-29T14:12:32+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: \"strike\" on the lead weight [Digest urth.v028.n042]",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "text": "Apparently this was actual practice in Classic \ntimes: herewith a quote from a reference\n\nhttp://omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu/hyper-lists/bmcr-l/1991/02.06.16.html\n\n      :\n   The section on slogans inscribed on lead \n   bullets (e. g., \"take that,\" \"[this one's]\n   for you,\" \"ouch,\" \"get pregnant with this\")\n   is particularly intriguing (45-46). \n      :\n\nI looked around the web, but couldn't refind the sling\npage with photos of such sling-bullets.\n\nSee also http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/rialto/slings-msg.text\n\nFurther proof that Mr Wolfe has a strong background in\nClassic studies!\n\n\t-John Bishop"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0141@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Straight",
        "address": "straight at email.unc.edu"
      },
      "date": "1999-09-29T17:21:14+00:00",
      "subject": "RE: (urth) Re: \"strike\" on the lead weight [Digest urth.v028.n042\t]",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0028-0139@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Greene, Carlton wrote:\nIt also raises some rather odd toxicology questions -- could a normal human\nbeing really walk around for as long as she did with a belly full of lead\nshot without suffering brain damage or, at the very least, a really bad\ntummy ache?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "One wrinkle is that we don't know how much human physiology has changed\nbetween Severian's time and ours (or between ours and Severians, depending\non how you want to think about the chronology).\n\n-Rostrum"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0144@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Peter Stephenson",
        "address": "pws at ibmth.df.unipi.it"
      },
      "date": "1999-09-30T08:32:38+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Re: \"strike\" on the lead weight [Digest urth.v028.n042 ]",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0028-0141@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "\"Greene, Carlton\" wrote:\nNot to shake that tired old stick at the question, but maybe the Claw had\nsomething to do with it."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Perfectly reasonable --- she was, after all, already dead when she was\nweighted down with lead shot.  (Well --- I hope so.)  If the Claw brought\nher back to life, presumably a bit of lead poisoning isn't going to be much\nof a problem.  To put it another way, I don't suppose the other corpses lie\naround thinking `Ugh, this lead shot's not doing me any good'.  Before this\nbecomes serious fan fiction...\n\ncorncrake"
        }
      ]
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