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<div><i>"She took the wax head from Master Gurloes and pretended
to replace it on her shoulders, slipping it by some sleight
into the fuligin cloth, then standing before us radiant and
whole. I knelt before her, and the others withdrew.</i></div>
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She raised the sword with which I had so lately struck off her
head; the blade was bloody now from some contact with the wax.
"You are of the torturers," she said."</i></div>
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Alice Cooper used to have himself beheaded during his shows at the
turn of the 70s decade. It's an old illusion.<br>
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This scene parallels the both the story of the Green Knight and the
Islamic beheading of Ishmael.<br>
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I can't look it up now, but someone said the sword was made of
mahogany. That's not an especially light material. <br>
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u+16b9<br>
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