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The record was meant to "multiply [his] voice saying that I love her," and it arrived like a sprung leak or an untamable river, a font that couldn't easily be stopped up, even if writing songs wasn't what he most wanted to be doing in the midst of that period.
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Two explosions, blackdamp (locally called choak-damp), fire and the lethal afterdamp made any rescue attempt impossible. The suggestion was made that the pit be stopped up to extinguish the fire. However, local recollections of three men who had survived for 40 days in a pit near Byker led to shouts of "Murder" and obstruction.
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The barges could circulate fresh air because of openings in the top and bottom of the vessel. The hole in the top could be "stopped up" when the waves crashed over the vessel to prevent scuttling. The hole in the bottom is assumed to have been constructed as a sort of moon pool with the lip above the waterline so it would not flood the vessel. This would also allow wave action and the buoying of the vessel to pump fresh air in and out of the vessel when the upper opening was uncapped.
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A detailed description of the bugonia process can be found in byzantine Geoponica:Geoponica, XV, 2, 22 sqq.. > Build a house, ten cubits high, with all the sides of equal dimensions, with > one door, and four windows, one on each side; put an ox into it, thirty > months old, very fat and fleshy; let a number of young men kill him by > beating him violently with clubs, so as to mangle both flesh and bones, but > taking care not to shed any blood; let all the orifices, mouth, eyes, nose > etc. be stopped up with clean and fine linen, impregnated with pitch; let a > quantity of thyme be strewed under the reclining animal, and then let > windows and doors be closed and covered with a thick coating of clay, to > prevent the access of air or wind. After three weeks have passed, let the > house be opened, and let light and fresh air get access to it, except from > the side from which the wind blows strongest. Eleven days afterwards, you > will find the house full of bees, hanging together in clusters, and nothing > left of the ox but horns, bones and hair.
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