[lbo-talk] This is Your Pilot Slurring

[Chris Doss]

The follow-up bit where the husband and his brothers bludgeon the offending parties to death with farm implements will be entertaining for the village as well. If the woman was married, her husband will probably join the killing party or his honor will be besmirched and everybody will call him a pussy. They will talk about it for years. If the offending man is smart, he will get the hell out of dodge and become either a bandit or beggar, as luck and ability take him. If the woman is super-lucky, she will be spared, only slightly mutilated, and beaten regularly. Otherwise, her options are ugly death, escaping into the forest to starve, or, if through some miracle she makes it to a distant town, becoming a street prostitute.

Peasant society was quite brutal. Ever read Quiet Flows the Don, the first chapter with the lynching of the witch?

--- On Thu, 2/5/09, Dorene Cornwell <dorenefc at gmail.com> wrote:


> From: Dorene Cornwell <dorenefc at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] This is Your Pilot Slurring
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Thursday, February 5, 2009, 7:14 PM
> Which if you think about it would have been highly
> entertaining,
> considerably more so than mere binge drinking and it would
> give the village
> something new to talk about to boot.
> 
> DC