Kytheros wrote:runsforcelery wrote: You take the right cardstock, now, and you bind one end into a brass cup t’ hold the primer, and all you’d have t’ do’d be to —”anwi wrote:Anyone with me in expecting that this storyline continues with "BOOM"?
And I'm talking about a serious BOOM, martian style...Weird Harold wrote:Nope, no earth-shattering kaboom here. That's the way shotgun shells have been made in the real world almost since breech-loaders were invented.
I think he means that he thinks that Mahldyn is being interrupted by something going BOOM.
Of course. Something major, along the lines of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Marvin_the_Martian.svg.
It'd fit with the "foreshadowing", the rather long exposition in the snippet and the preferences of the author. And then the interesting bit will be, whether good Howsmyn and Mahldyn survive the bonfire or not...