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David DeLaney  
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From: d...@gatekeeper.vic.com (David DeLaney)
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 03:01:28 -0400
Local: Thurs, Aug 16 2012 3:01 am
Subject: Re: YASID: A city that likes killing you
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Michael Stemper <mstem...@walkabout.empros.com> wrote:
>Jaimie Vandenbergh <jai...@sometimes.sessile.org> writes:
>>I picked up some of that yesterday, reading _Whispers Under Ground_ by
>>Ben Aaronovitch. Having been a caver (spelunker) and been in a couple
>>of sticky situations before (though not as bad as the protagonist), it
>>was quite nasty.

>Just out of curiousity, have you ever read Thor Heyerdahl's _Aku-Aku_?
>There's a scene in which they crawl a half a mile or so into a cave,
>which is well past where it would have been possible for them to turn
>around. That scene really got to my mother. It didn't bother me in the
>least, possibly because I was only ten or eleven at the time, and not
>overflowing with empathy.

And I got it from a scene in, I believe, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen when
the children and guide were crawling through an extensive network of
underground caves and tunnels to escape something or other. The scene which
ended up with the thermos bottle being left beside the hole in the middle
of the floor, and the one where they have to crawl into the water, with no
way at that point to reverse...

Dave, brrr
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