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    "id": 1798,
    "subject": "\"strike\" on the lead weight [Digest urth.v028.n042",
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    "first": "1999-09-29T15:13:57+00:00",
    "last": "1999-09-29T18:16:03+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0140@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Greene, Carlton",
        "address": "cgreene2 at hunton.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-09-29T15:13:57+00:00",
      "subject": "RE: (urth) Re: \"strike\" on the lead weight [Digest urth.v028.n042",
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          "text": "Fortunately for Dorcas, they were not of the pyrotechnic variety described\nelsewhere in TBOTNS -- otherwise, her regurgitation of them in Thrax might\nhave sent her the way of little Severian -- gone in a flash.  \n\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?\n\nI prefer my women unleaded, thank you.\n\nC/"
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          "text": "----------\nFrom: \tJohn Bishop[SMTP:jbishop at blkbrd.zko.dec.com]\nReply To: \turth at lists.best.com\nSent: \tWednesday, September 29, 1999 2:12 PM\nTo: \turth at lists.best.com\nSubject: \t(urth) Re: \"strike\" on the lead weight [Digest\nurth.v028.n042]\n\nApparently 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\n\nworks"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0142@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Greene, Carlton",
        "address": "cgreene2 at hunton.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-09-29T18:16:03+00:00",
      "subject": "RE: (urth) Re: \"strike\" on the lead weight [Digest urth.v028.n042",
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          "text": "Not to shake that tired old stick at the question, but maybe the Claw had\nsomething to do with it.\n\nAn alternative: perhaps the word \"lead\" as used in the text refers to\nsomething that is not the lead of our Earth -- a different element with\ndifferent (i.e. non-toxic) properties."
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          "text": "----------\nFrom: \tMichael Straight[SMTP:straight at email.unc.edu]\nReply To: \turth at lists.best.com\nSent: \tWednesday, September 29, 1999 5:21 PM\nTo: \turth at lists.best.com\nSubject: \tRE: (urth) Re: \"strike\" on the lead weight [Digest\nurth.v028.n042\t]\n\n\n\nOn Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Greene, Carlton wrote:"
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          "text": "It also raises some rather odd toxicology questions -- could a normal\nhuman\nbeing really walk around for as long as she did with a belly full of\nlead\nshot without suffering brain damage or, at the very least, a really bad\ntummy ache?"
        },
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          "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\n\n\nworks"
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