<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Makes sense. Looks like ours used methods ABC: ambush, death roll, hold and drown. <br></span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>The description in your source is slightly different---it </span><span>doesn't mention the disorienting effect of the death roll, although the peasant's leg seems to almost have come off, which effect it does mention. </span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>What a bizarre book, btw. Where are the monster stats? (never mind where was the editor)<br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Jerry Friedman
<jerry_friedman@yahoo.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> The Urth Mailing List <urth@lists.urth.net> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, March 30, 2012 3:02 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: (urth) Short Story 4: The Dead Man<br> </font> </div> <br>>From: David Stockhoff <a ymailto="mailto:dstockhoff@verizon.net" href="mailto:dstockhoff@verizon.net">dstockhoff@verizon.net</a><br>>I can only add to this that the depth of research needed for this little OMG-I'm-the-ghost ghost story is remarkable. It's not entirely convincing, because of the little Orientalist "footnotes," but the sheer legwork to get us into the peasant's mind---banter of women, jungle species succession, the croc's chimney, if true (I can't confirm it)---is commendable. <br>><br>>Incidentally, the croc is known as the "mugger" crocodile and does lie in wait for prey (<a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mugger_crocodile" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mugger_crocodile</a>). However, the manner in which it actually killed the peasant sounds more like the "death roll" described for the saltwater croc (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltwater_crocodile" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltwater_crocodile</a>). One would need to delve deeper than Wikipedia to sort it out further, but the conflation works, if conflation it is. <br><br>Apparently all crocodilians ambush their prey and roll like that.<br> <br><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=f8uFPKPzlnEC&pg=PA264" target="_blank">http://books.google.com/books?id=f8uFPKPzlnEC&pg=PA264</a><br> <br>Jerry Friedman<br>_______________________________________________<br>Urth Mailing List<br>To post, write <a ymailto="mailto:urth@urth.net"
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