seeking the truth

Jerry Friedman · 06 Aug 2010, 15:35 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: jerry_friedman at yahoo.com (Jerry Friedman)
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 08:35:01 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) seeking the truth
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From: Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com>

> On 8/5/2010 9:43 PM, Ryan Dunn wrote:
>> Fulgurator as in someone who practices diathermy? What would the examiner do? 
>>Is it a good cop/bad cop
>> thing? One's doing the flaying, one's relieving the pain enough to keep the 
>>excruciation going?
>> 
>> Whose the interrogator?
>
> My guess would be that the examiner is the crown's representative, the way 
>medical examiners / coroners
> determine the cause of death,

I'll agree if his job in this case is to determine the guilt for a crime.  In 
other words, I think the examiner is the interrogator.

> and that a fulgurator who uses "lightning" for divination, is a polygraph 
>examiner writ large.

I'd assumed that the fulgurator was an electrician (and was amused by the idea 
that the word Gurloes can't remember might be "fulgor" or some such rather than 
"electricity").  But I like your suggestion better.

Jerry Friedman

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