Re: Silver Nemesis reborn, only with cappier music

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On 2 Jan, 20:54, "Agamemnon" <agamem...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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On 2 Jan, 02:31, "Agamemnon" <agamem...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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[I'm *so* not getting into a discussion with Aggie again, but this is just
a clarification]

CAUTION: This post may contain traces of sarcasm.

<snip - Romeo and Juliet>

They took a drug which slowed their heart beat to almost nothing.

Juliet takes a drug which makes her appear to be dead. This is so convincing
that she is buried (put into the family tomb) by her family. In other words,
the drug doesn't just make her appear dead to Romeo, it makes her appear
dead to everyone.

Romeo hears of her death from someone who visits him in Mantua, to which
he has been banished, and he then travels back to Verona, breaks into the
Capulet tomb and finds what he thinks is Juliet's corpse. He takes the
poison
that he brought with him, kisses Juliet, and dies.

At this moment, Juliet wakes up, finds Romeo is dead (really dead, not
nearly dead, like Juliet was) and kills herself with his dagger. This is all
totally realistic and really happened, to real people, so there.

That doesn't make someone look dead or feel cold as a dead person
would, and people in that period would have been more familiar than
most today with the difference between living bodies and corpses,
since death was so much more visible.

Was Romeo or Juliet a medical doctor? No. They were kids.

Neither Romeo nor Juliet pronounced Juliet dead. Her family made the
decision to bury her. It's not beyond the bounds of possibility that
they had a medical doctor look at her first, just in case. Or perhaps they
just glanced in through the doorway, couldn't see her breathing and
decided to bury her anyway, just in case.


I'm not a medical doctor, and I can tell the difference between a
fresh corpse and a living creature. Death wasn't sterilised back then

You are not 12 years old.

Juliet was nearly 14 in the play, Romeo probably somewhat older. Her
parents (the ones who were so sure she was dead that they buried her)
were almost certainly not 12 years old either.


the way it is today - it didn't happen out of sight in hospitals, it
happened on the streets every day of the week. It's an absurd
contrivance that someone would be taken for dead just because they
had a slow heartbeat. It wasn't meant to be realistic - it was meant
to tell the story of one character's emotional reaction to thinking
his/ her lover was dead.

They were 12 year old kids.

Nope.

<snip>

Diane L.


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