<table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' ><tr><td valign='top' style='font: inherit;'>Yep, Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, IIRC. Made into a great short film, which was, again IIRC, used when "Twilight Zone" (the original) tried switching to a one hour format during one season.<BR><BR>
<DIV>F.P. Kiesche III</DIV>
<DIV>"When you send a man out with a gun, you create a policymaker. When his ass is on the line, he will do whatever he needs to do...And if the implications of that bothers you, the time to do something about it is before you decide to send him out." (David Drake, <STRONG>Caught in the Crossfire</STRONG>)</DIV>
<DIV>Blogging at <A href="http://texasbestgrok.mu.nu/" target=_blank rel=nofollow>TexasBestGrok</A>!</DIV><BR><BR>--- On <B>Wed, 6/18/08, brunians@brunians.org <I><brunians@brunians.org></I></B> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid">From: brunians@brunians.org <brunians@brunians.org><BR>Subject: Re: (urth) The Severian Behind Curtain #3<BR>To: recursive_loop@yahoo.com, "The Urth Mailing List" <urth@lists.urth.net><BR>Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2008, 3:12 PM<BR><BR><PRE>Ambrose Bierce wrote a great short story on this theme, one of his truly
remarkable Civil War stories.
This spy was hanged, the rope broke, he fell into a river, fought his way
out and back home, was reunited with his sweetheart......
This spy was hanged.
.
> Funny you should float that theory...In the "Paladin of Shadows"
series by
> John Ringo (military-oriented "technothriller"), the main
character foils
> multiple terrorist attacks, destroys a sex-trade ring, starts a military
> fiefdom in Georgia (the country), has lots of wild sex, etc. Over several
> books.
>
> Early on in the first book, he spots a kidnapping by some terrorists and
> attempts to foil it by climbing into the wheel wheel of a jumbo jet. So
> Ringo has said the action that follows might have happened...or it might
> all be the delusions of the dying main character and when the plane lands
> in Syria, they're going to be mighty puzzled by the frozen dead guy in
the
> wheel well.
>
>
> F.P. Kiesche III
> "When you send a man out with a gun, you create a policymaker. When
his
> ass is on the line, he will do whatever he needs to do...And if the
> implications of that bothers you, the time to do something about it is
> before you decide to send him out." (David Drake, Caught in the
Crossfire)
> Blogging at TexasBestGrok!
>
> --- On Sun, 6/15/08, brunians@brunians.org <brunians@brunians.org>
wrote:
>
> From: brunians@brunians.org <brunians@brunians.org>
> Subject: Re: (urth) The Severian Behind Curtain #3
> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth@lists.urth.net>
> Date: Sunday, June 15, 2008, 2:39 PM
>
> Severian drowns in the river Gyoll.
>
> Everything else that happens in BOTNS and UOTNS are hallucinations that he
> undergoes while dying.
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Urth Mailing List
> To post, write urth@urth.net
> Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net
_______________________________________________
Urth Mailing List
To post, write urth@urth.net
Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net</PRE></BLOCKQUOTE></td></tr></table><br>