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

Peter Stephenson · 30 Sep 1999, 08:32 · from urth-v0028.mbox · original

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From: Peter Stephenson <pws at ibmth.df.unipi.it>
Subject: Re: (urth) Re: "strike" on the lead weight [Digest urth.v028.n042 ]
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 10:32:38 +0200
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"Greene, Carlton" wrote:
> Not to shake that tired old stick at the question, but maybe the Claw had
> something to do with it.

Perfectly reasonable --- she was, after all, already dead when she was
weighted down with lead shot.  (Well --- I hope so.)  If the Claw brought
her back to life, presumably a bit of lead poisoning isn't going to be much
of a problem.  To put it another way, I don't suppose the other corpses lie
around thinking `Ugh, this lead shot's not doing me any good'.  Before this
becomes serious fan fiction...

corncrake

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