From: "Greene, Carlton" <CGreene2@hunton.com>
Subject: RE: (urth) Re: "strike" on the lead weight [Digest urth.v028.n042
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 18:16:03 

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@email.unc.edu]
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> Subject: 	RE: (urth) Re: "strike" on the lead weight [Digest
> urth.v028.n042	]
> 
> 
> 
> 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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