The Severian Behind Curtain #3

Jeff Wilson · 19 Jun 2008, 06:04 · from 2008-June.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:04:09 -0500
Subject: (urth) The Severian Behind Curtain #3
In-Reply-To: <13750.72.171.0.144.1213816377.squirrel at brunians.org>
References: <123936.52650.qm at web63901.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
	<13750.72.171.0.144.1213816377.squirrel at brunians.org>
Message-ID: <4859F6D9.4080403 at io.com>

brunians at brunians.org wrote:
> Ambrose Bierce wrote a great short story on this theme, one of his truly
> remarkable Civil War stories.
> 
> This spy was hanged, the rope broke, he fell into a river, fought his way
> out and back home, was reunited with his sweetheart......
> 
> This spy was hanged.

The Tim Robbins film "Jacob's Ladder" is a much longer and less 
rewarding (except for Danny Aiello and the Disco-Cthulhu scene) 
treatment of the same idea.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >

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