Readers Dispute Figures

To the Editor,

Regarding John Mattingly’s “Agriculture and War,” Paragraph 3: Naw, John, the bodies just couldn’t have been that deep. Considering that there are 27,878,400 square feet on every mile of the Earth’s surface, and that the average human body contains no more than 2.78 cubic feet of flesh, bones and blood, then you could fit ten million bodies into each square mile.

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He’d like to see what pulses through their veins

Letter from Gene Lorig

Guns and Politics – September 1999 – Colorado Central Magazine

He’d like to see what pulses through their veins

Ed and Martha,

Persistence is thy name. Here’s $40 to keep you off my back for a couple years.

Since your first card, in May, I have been trying to think of something original to say, but life is too pleasantly dull here to so do, if you are able to forget the outside world. And the outside world is so absurd it dumbfounds. I have even found myself agreeing with Ken Hamblin — on JFK Jr. And maybe somewhat on guns.

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