Venom

On This Day In History
1991: Formal postal worker commits mass murder

Quote Of The Day
"Read my lips. Words do not kill! People kill. Wild animals kill. But words .... words have a totally different power. They enter in through our eyes and ears and work their way into our souls."
(Ridcully, Going Postal, Terry Pratchett )

Words as poison. I remember Pusher from The X-Files, the man who could kill people with words. So did Claudius literally pour poison into his brother's ear, as Iago symbollically poured poison into Othello's ear. Not surprising, then, that Terry Pratchett should make the same connection in Going Postal ; after all, who works more closely with those infectious words and letters than postal workers?

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