Corn ears

António Marques · 20 Dec 2010, 08:06 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: entonio at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ant=F3nio_Marques?=)
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 08:06:40 +0000
Subject: (urth) Corn ears
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On 20 December 2010 04:01, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Could someone please explain to me what is happening in RttW, where
>> the man who gave the narrator the corn seeds tries to attack him when
>> he turns his back to go away?

On the one hand it's yet another classic SF thing.

> Isn't it that the man believes that the corn seeds are being extorted from
> him?

Could be, but he seemed surprised that only 6 seeds were being requested.

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