From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun Dec 19 1999 - 14:45:11 MST
At 01:22 PM 19/12/99 -0800, I gibed too quickly:
>At 04:18 PM 18/12/99 EST, the spud wrote:
>>Life-long friend and fellow sci-fi guru; Fredrick Pohl, said that "Issac
was
>>despessed during the last year of his life from taking industrial strength
>>lasix and waiting to die."
>Lasix will do that to you every time. I was despessed for hours.
A belated querelous glance at google told me that this unlikely word was
not a typo:
< Lasix is called a 'diuretic' because it helps the body rid itself of
extra fluid.
Lasix makes this happen by helping the body pass more urine.
This helps the
heart by decreasing the volume of fluid it has to pump. >
So `Issac' was not despessed but despissed, in excelsis.
Damien Broderick
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