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Date Posted: 11:20:20 02/12/03 Wed
Author: Buffy's vampire
Subject: Re: Spontaneous Combustion
In reply to: Don 's message, "Spontaneous Combustion" on 02:33:52 02/12/03 Wed

>I once worked with a man who feared spontaneous
>combustion. He suffered from psoriasis and had heard
>that the dry, scaly skin was so flammable that even a
>static spark could set it off. He wore a grounding
>strap at his desk to dissipate any charge that might
>build up from the repeated motions of his chair
>against the carpet.
>
>Dickens used spontaneous combustion in Bleak House (I
>think it was Bleak House, my library is in boxes and
>1250 miles [2011km] away. That's as the crow flies,
>by the roads it's more like 1500 [2413]). The
>introduction goes to great lengths to convince us that
>this is a recognized phenomenon. The last incident I
>heard about was supposed to have occurred in Chicago
>about 22 years ago but the investigation was not
>conclusive the last I had heard of it.

Bleak House? Will also drag my dusty copy from the shelves which I haven't stacked properly since moving house last June.

I went searching for stuff on Internet and found a lot except for the cause [you have provided a necessary idea and I thank thee, Don]

Here's the logic for my book as described in the prologue:

Cunt’s predicament was awkward if he were successfully to burst into a human bonfire. Apart from timing, there was the difficulty of being in position without the accoutrement of self-ignition cluttering the gallery and causing security to view him with suspicion.
He had to bring to conclusion all the preparations in a concomitant explosion of fulfilment. He didn’t want to hang around after the event, to be packed into a meat bag and rushed to hospital with horrible wounds and a terrible stench like when the neighbours burnt their dead cat.
No! He wanted to explode.
Not to simmer like frozen prawns in oil or burn like a stack of leaves on an autumn afternoon. No! He wanted to burst into millions of bloody fragments and to shower the whole fucking lot of parasites with his shit life.
He wanted those pricks of politicians to experience what it was like to have shit poured on them from above. He wanted them to understand the dreadful impulse that drove an ordinary bloke to spontaneous combustion. He wanted them to be stained with the awful effects of their policies, to be showered with the blood and guts of their political victim, the microcosmic and epitomic citizen of Australia.

[This as Cunt stands in the public gallery above parliament where John Howard and his cronies are trying to justify war with Iraq]

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