# Digest whorl.v010.n041 *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 31 Oct 1999* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### David Langford *31 Oct 1999, 08:46* In-Reply-To: <199910302310.QAA19304 at lists1.best.com> alga propagated: > Also yesterday there was a report of two women snoozing under a tree in > Hyde Park who were killed by a lightning bolt that stuck their > underwire bras.Now what writer, modernist, post-modernist, whatever, > could possibly have made that up? Vladimir Nabokov came close: "My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three ..." The =Evening Standard= later reported more detailed pathologist's evidence saying that although the underwires acted as a conductor, the women would almost certainly have died if they hadn't been wearing those bras. Dave David Langford ansible at cix.co.uk | http://www.ansible.demon.co.uk/ *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---