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“What shall we do with him then?” an announcer bellowed into the PA system. It was a particularly cold and wet November evening and I was perched atop a fifty-foot high mound of sticks and branches. Beneath me a few thousand people gathered, waving flaming torches and staring in my direction. “Shall we hang him?” “No,” the crowd replied. “Shall we drown him?” I thought this an odd question to ask people holding torches and staring at a pile of tinder the size of a small battleship. “No,” the crowd yelled. At least they were practical. “Shall we burn him?” “Yes,” the crowd roared. Actually, they were British, so it wasn’t really much of a roar - more like a muffled, “if it wouldn’t be too much trouble.”


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