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   Message 2,682 of 4,347   
   mark lewis to Anton Shepelev   
   An exercise in transation   
   04 Jul 19 08:21:36   
   
   REPLY: 2:221/6.0 5d1dd320   
   MSGID: 1:3634/12.73 5d1df051   
   PID: GED+LNX 1.1.5-b20180707   
   CHRS: CP437 2   
   TZUTC: -0400   
   TID: hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 07-09-15   
    On 2019 Jul 04 13:21:20, you wrote to you:   
      
    AS>> Lying  on  wet  snow  in  wait  of  a near death, Bianca   
    AS>> suddenly emembered [...]   
      
    AS> `near' does not sound well to me, but am hard  put  to  find   
    AS> one that fits the intended meaning of a death that will come   
    AS> soon.  A quick death may be misunderstood as having a  short   
    AS> duration.   
      
   "near death" means close to death... in the above passage, bianca is waiting   
   to almost die when she remembers something...   
      
   looking up "near death experience" may help provide a little more information   
   on the actual action but "near death" by itself just means "close to death" or   
   "almost dead"...   
      
   just a lowly american shooting from the hip again...   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
   And to this end they built themselves a stupendous super-computer which was   
   so amazingly intelligent that even before its data banks had been connected   
   up it had started from "I think therefore I am" and got as far as deducing   
   the existence of rice pudding and income tax before anyone managed to turn   
   it off.   
   ... Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.   
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