"strike" on the lead weight [Digest urth.v028.n042

Greene, Carlton · 29 Sep 1999, 15:13 · from urth-v0028.mbox · original

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From: "Greene, Carlton" <CGreene2 at hunton.com>
Subject: RE: (urth) Re: "strike" on the lead weight [Digest urth.v028.n042
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 15:13:57
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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. =20

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/
> ----------
> 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]
>=20
> Apparently this was actual practice in Classic=20
> times: herewith a quote from a reference
>=20
> http://omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu/hyper-lists/bmcr-l/1991/02.06.16.html
>=20
>       :
>    The section on slogans inscribed on lead=20
>    bullets (e. g., "take that," "[this one's]
>    for you," "ouch," "get pregnant with this")
>    is particularly intriguing (45-46).=20
>       :
>=20
> I looked around the web, but couldn't refind the sling
> page with photos of such sling-bullets.
>=20
> See also http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/rialto/slings-msg.text
>=20
> Further proof that Mr Wolfe has a strong background in
> Classic studies!
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> 	-John Bishop
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> works
> *More Wolfe info & archive of this list at http://www.urth.net/urth/
> ranjit at best.com
> whorl at lists.best.com
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