probably an alcohol-based solution
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incandescensThere is a point in the afternoon, somewhere between two and three o'clock, where everyone at work gets a little inclined to climb the walls, and starts taking five minutes to check the news, etc.
Which resulted in everyone simultaneously discussing a news item about a man catching fire during surgery. (Apparently a skin-cleaning solution ignited. He was discharged the day after, so it can't have been that serious.) There was some debate about how to clinically code it.
It was just that point in the afternoon.
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So long afterward a maker in Rohan said in his song of the Mounds of Mundburg:
We heard of the horns in the hills ringing,
the swords shining in the South-kingdom.
Steeds went striding to the Stoningland
as wind in the morning. War was kindled.
There Theoden fell, Thengling mighty,
to his golden halls and green pastures
in the Northern fields never returning,
high lord of the host. Harding and Guthlaf,
Dunhere and Deorwine, doughty Grimbold,
Herefara and Herubrand, Horn and Fastred,
fought and fell there in a far country:
in the Mounds of Mundburg under mould they lie
with their league-fellows, lords of Gondor.
Neither Hirluin the Fair to the hills by the sea,
nor Forlong the old to the flowering vales
ever, to Arnach, to his own country
returned in triumph; nor the tall bowmen,
Derufin and Duilin, to their dark waters,
meres of Morthond under mountain-shadows.
Death in the morning and at day's ending
lords took and lowly. Long now they sleep
under grass in Gondor by the Great River.
Grey now as tears, gleaming silver,
red then it rolled, roaring water:
foam dyed with blood flamed at sunset;
as beacons mountains burned at evening;
red fell the dew in Rammas Echor.
-- The Return of the King, JRR Tolkien
Which resulted in everyone simultaneously discussing a news item about a man catching fire during surgery. (Apparently a skin-cleaning solution ignited. He was discharged the day after, so it can't have been that serious.) There was some debate about how to clinically code it.
It was just that point in the afternoon.
---
So long afterward a maker in Rohan said in his song of the Mounds of Mundburg:
We heard of the horns in the hills ringing,
the swords shining in the South-kingdom.
Steeds went striding to the Stoningland
as wind in the morning. War was kindled.
There Theoden fell, Thengling mighty,
to his golden halls and green pastures
in the Northern fields never returning,
high lord of the host. Harding and Guthlaf,
Dunhere and Deorwine, doughty Grimbold,
Herefara and Herubrand, Horn and Fastred,
fought and fell there in a far country:
in the Mounds of Mundburg under mould they lie
with their league-fellows, lords of Gondor.
Neither Hirluin the Fair to the hills by the sea,
nor Forlong the old to the flowering vales
ever, to Arnach, to his own country
returned in triumph; nor the tall bowmen,
Derufin and Duilin, to their dark waters,
meres of Morthond under mountain-shadows.
Death in the morning and at day's ending
lords took and lowly. Long now they sleep
under grass in Gondor by the Great River.
Grey now as tears, gleaming silver,
red then it rolled, roaring water:
foam dyed with blood flamed at sunset;
as beacons mountains burned at evening;
red fell the dew in Rammas Echor.
-- The Return of the King, JRR Tolkien
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Date: 2012-03-02 04:48 am (UTC)Did you ever get a consensus on how to code the fire-during-operation?
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Date: 2012-03-02 10:20 am (UTC)Oh, we agreed it was probably two codes, with the first code being details of the fire-as-injury, and the second code being one of the codes for "misadventure to patient during surgical and medical care". ;)
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Date: 2012-03-03 03:35 am (UTC)Hooray for consensus! O:D
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Date: 2012-03-02 07:00 am (UTC)1. I remember reading that passage as a child, saying the words to myself and marveling at the richness and rightness of each phrase. It wasn't exciting, not like a proper part of the story, and it was kind of slow and a little bit dull and long...but beautiful and solemn and it felt Important.
2. papersky's latest poem makes me think of both your writing and your lj quotes.
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Date: 2012-03-02 10:21 am (UTC)2. Thank you!