Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 15:50:59 -0400
From: StoneOx17@aol.com
Subject: Re: (urth) PEACE: Smart

On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Roy C. Lackey wrote:

> You meant, it was Smart who bought the
> Dresden figure for Olivia. I didn't
> know that no one had found the hand
> reference in Ludwig's bio. Strange.
> Maybe it has something to do with one
> of Smart's shoulders being "noticeably
> larger than the other". In depictions
> of Napoleon, is the shoulder corres-
> ponding to the hand in his waistcoat
> elevated higher than the other, making
> it look bigger? Anyone know?
>
> -Roy

There's another possible reason for one
of Smart's shoulders to be higher than the
other.  Mr. Tilly seems to have killed his
dogs, wife, and son with side effects of
the "medicines" he was testing on them.
If he was trying out his new "hunchback 
medicine" on his assistant before he died,
this could account for Smart's shoulders.

It seems like this should have taken more
than five days, but I've argued before that
part of Smart's story of Mr. Tilly may be a 
lie (note that Smart is described as having 
a long nose) and that Mr. Tilly was really
poisoned by Smart.  

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Stone Ox


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