From: Michael Straight <straight@email.unc.edu>
Subject: RE: (urth) Re: "strike" on the lead weight [Digest urth.v028.n042	]
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 17:21:14 



On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Greene, Carlton wrote:

> 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?

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
on how you want to think about the chronology).

-Rostrum


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