[HPforGrownups] Re: Professor Binns

[Patricia Bullington-McGuire]

No: HPFGUIDX 60212

On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 Kadoo96801 at aol.com wrote:

> Now I have doubt that Binns actually died in the staff room fire!

My impression was that Binns died *in front of* the staff room fire, not
*in* a fire.  I pictured him nodding off in a big upholstered arm chair,
positioned near enough to the fireplace to get pleasantly warm but not
burned, and then dying peacefully in his sleep.  Could you explain what
makes you think he was burned to death?  I don't have the book in front of
me, but I don't remember anything like that.

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Patricia Bullington-McGuire	<patricia at obscure.org>

The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered
three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the
purely hypothetical.  They were all, one might say, nonexistent, but each
nonexisted in an entirely different way ... 
                -- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad"