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plague victims catapulted over walls into besieged city

Early germ warfare.  The dead hurled this way turn like wheels in the sky.  Look: there goes Larry the Shoemaker, barefoot, over the wall, and Mary Sausage Stuffer, see how she flies, and the Hatter twins, both at once, soar over the parapet, little Tommy’s elbow bent as if in a salute and his sister, Mathilde, she follows him, arms outstretched, through the air just as she did on earth

Thomas Lux