Short Story 4: The Dead Man

DAVID STOCKHOFF · 30 Mar 2012, 19:42 · from 2012-March.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (DAVID STOCKHOFF)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:42:30 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) Short Story 4: The Dead Man
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Makes sense. Looks like ours used methods ABC: ambush, death roll, hold and drown. 


The description in your source is slightly different---it doesn't mention the disorienting effect of the death roll, although the peasant's leg seems to almost have come off, which effect it does mention.?

What a bizarre book, btw. Where are the monster stats? (never mind where was the editor)



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 From: Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com>
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>From: David Stockhoff dstockhoff at verizon.net
>I can only add to this that the depth of research needed for this little OMG-I'm-the-ghost ghost story is remarkable. It's not entirely convincing, because of the little Orientalist "footnotes," but the sheer legwork to get us into the peasant's mind---banter of women, jungle species succession, the croc's chimney, if true (I can't confirm it)---is commendable. 
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>Incidentally, the croc is known as the "mugger" crocodile and does lie in wait for prey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mugger_crocodile). However, the manner in which it actually killed the peasant sounds more like the "death roll" described for the saltwater croc (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltwater_crocodile). One would need to delve deeper than Wikipedia to? sort it out further, but the conflation works, if conflation it is. 

Apparently all crocodilians ambush their prey and?roll like that.
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http://books.google.com/books?id=f8uFPKPzlnEC&pg=PA264
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Jerry Friedman
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