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

Greene, Carlton · 29 Sep 1999, 18:16 · 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 18:16:03
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Not to shake that tired old stick at the question, but maybe the Claw had
something to do with it.

An alternative: perhaps the word "lead" as used in the text refers to
something that is not the lead of our Earth -- a different element with
different (i.e. non-toxic) properties.

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> From: 	Michael Straight[SMTP:straight at email.unc.edu]
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> On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Greene, Carlton wrote:
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> > It also raises some rather odd toxicology questions -- could a normal
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> > being really walk around for as long as she did with a belly full of
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> > shot without suffering brain damage or, at the very least, a really bad
> > tummy ache?
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> One wrinkle is that we don't know how much human physiology has changed
> between Severian's time and ours (or between ours and Severians, depending
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