From: mabjo@pacbell.net   
      
   Henry wrote:   
      
   > Martha Bridegam  wrote:   
   >   
   > ...a comprehensive review of Orwell's wound; for which, thanks.   
   >   
   > > Here's a question for any fellow Orwell anoraks who may be reading:   
   >   
   > I just have one, small, anorakish quibble.   
   >   
   > > Orwell's POUM commander and friend Georges Kopp was a witness to Orwell's   
   > > condition after Orwell was wounded. Twenty days after the injury, in a   
   > > report to Orwell's brother-in-law Dr. Laurence O'Shaughnessy, Kopp   
   > > described the shot as having been fired from a long distance: "a normal 7   
   > > mm bore, copper-plated spanish Mauser bullet, shot from a distance of some   
   > > 175 yards. At this range, it still had a velocity of some 600 feet per   
   > > second and a cauterising temperature..."   
   >   
   > Did Kopp actually use the words 'from a long distance', or is that your   
   > interpretation of 'a distance of some 175 yards'? Because it's really   
   > not, you know, much of a distance at all, even for a standard-issue   
   > infantry rifle with open sights.   
      
   Sorry, no, "from a long distance" was my own phrase, by which I meant, as   
   opposed to point-blank or some such thing. Thx for noting this.   
      
   /M   
      
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