Sunday, March 16, 2003
Novelist Edmund C. Bentley
Wrote poetry, too — subsequently
He and his strange middle name
Have gathered their own little fame.
Wrote poetry, too — subsequently
He and his strange middle name
Have gathered their own little fame.
More from Salt:
To enforce the law against suicide, it was ordered that the bodies of people who took their own lives be salted, brought before a judge, and sentenced to public display […] Breton historians have discovered that in 1784 in the town of Cornouaille, Maurice LeCorre had died in prison and was ordered salted for trial. But due to some bureaucratic error, the corpse did not get a trial date and was found by a prison guard more than seven years later, not only salted but fermented in beer, at which point it was buried without trial.
Comments
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Well, corpses can be awfully quiet.
Very strange that they would try a corpse - I’ve always thought the law against suicide was un-enforceable. If you successfully break that law, how would they punish you? Now I know. Thanks, yuki. :)
pixel @ 03:48 AM | 2003/03/18
I love you dear Yuki
but you’re making me pukey
please bring a halt
to the posts about salt
Loliinspired @ 06:52 PM | 2003/03/19
What?!? Where was the corpse? How do you not notice a corpse for seven years? And then, after seven years of not, how do you suddenly come across it? And where did the beer come in? Oh, my mind is reeling.