"strike" on the lead weight [Digest urth.v028.n042
The Urth list — 2 messages, 1 voices, 29 Sep 1999
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Greene, Carlton — 29 Sep 1999, 15:13

Fortunately for Dorcas, they were not of the pyrotechnic variety described
elsewhere in TBOTNS -- otherwise, her regurgitation of them in Thrax might
have sent her the way of little Severian -- gone in a flash.  

It also raises some rather odd toxicology questions -- could a normal human
being really walk around for as long as she did with a belly full of lead
shot without suffering brain damage or, at the very least, a really bad
tummy ache?

I prefer my women unleaded, thank you.

C/

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> From: 	John Bishop[SMTP:jbishop at blkbrd.zko.dec.com]
> Reply To: 	urth at lists.best.com
> Sent: 	Wednesday, September 29, 1999 2:12 PM
> To: 	urth at lists.best.com
> Subject: 	(urth) Re: "strike" on the lead weight [Digest
> urth.v028.n042]
> 
> Apparently this was actual practice in Classic 
> times: herewith a quote from a reference
> 
> http://omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu/hyper-lists/bmcr-l/1991/02.06.16.html
> 
>       :
>    The section on slogans inscribed on lead 
>    bullets (e. g., "take that," "[this one's]
>    for you," "ouch," "get pregnant with this")
>    is particularly intriguing (45-46). 
>       :
> 
> I looked around the web, but couldn't refind the sling
> page with photos of such sling-bullets.
> 
> See also http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/rialto/slings-msg.text
> 
> Further proof that Mr Wolfe has a strong background in
> Classic studies!
> 
> 	-John Bishop
> 
> works

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Greene, Carlton — 29 Sep 1999, 18:16
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Not to shake that tired old stick at the question, but maybe the Claw had
something to do with it.

An alternative: perhaps the word "lead" as used in the text refers to
something that is not the lead of our Earth -- a different element with
different (i.e. non-toxic) properties.

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> From: 	Michael Straight[SMTP:straight at email.unc.edu]
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> Sent: 	Wednesday, September 29, 1999 5:21 PM
> To: 	urth at lists.best.com
> Subject: 	RE: (urth) Re: "strike" on the lead weight [Digest
> urth.v028.n042	]
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> 
> 
> On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Greene, Carlton wrote:

> > It also raises some rather odd toxicology questions -- could a normal
> > human
> > being really walk around for as long as she did with a belly full of
> > lead
> > shot without suffering brain damage or, at the very least, a really bad
> > tummy ache?

> One wrinkle is that we don't know how much human physiology has changed
> between Severian's time and ours (or between ours and Severians, depending
> on how you want to think about the chronology).
> 
> -Rostrum
> 
> 
> works

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