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Thu, 17 Feb 2000 09:06:33 -0600
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Nope -- sorry, but this apparently really happened!  see Louis Budd, _MT:
Social Critic_, pp. 269 ff.



Please help me by answering this question about the Person Sitting in
>Darkness.  When MT mentions that Catholic missionaries collected money for
>Catholic deaths during the Boxer Rebellion , and demanded 680 heads for 680
>Catholics murdered , isn't this strictly fiction even though MT mentions a
>specific location in China where this was allegedly to have taken place ?
>Perhaps he mentioned heads in a figurative sense?  Please help     Herm
>Schloss, Tucson, AZ  e mail [log in to unmask]
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