Needed: Beta Readers for the Lesbian Kit Marlowe Project.

[strange_selkie]

No holiday rush -- it en't done -- just register your interest if you have it. It may have started as a complete lark, but I want this to be good when it's done

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[strange_selkie]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19387361 is the paper that made me think it was surviveable;

http://wapedia.mobi/thumb/25d7510/en/fixed/400/348/Depressed_skull_fracture2.jpg?format=jpg Here is a very fair approximation, I think, if you move the knife over a skosh toward the temple rather than the sinuses;

This one shows the contusion damage that would probably result to the frontal lobe if the knife went straight on instead of angling down past the optic nerve; the dura mater would probably also have been penetrated, with nasty infectious implications, if the knife didn't veer.
http://img.springerimages.com/Images/SpringerBooks/BOK=978-3-540-33041-7/PRT=1/CHP=3_10.1007-978-3-540-33041-7_3/MediaObjects/WATER_978-3-540-33041-7_3_Fig19_HTML.jpg

Here's the optometry (toward the bottom, with the amazing phrase "audible orbital bruit"!)
http://www.pacificu.edu/optometry/ce/courses/21042/primarycaretraumapg2.cfm

http://scielo.isciii.es/img/revistas/maxi/v29n3/145fig_07.jpg Well, this person survived... (hang on to your mittens.)

[strange_selkie]

>.> Just as long as you're not researching lesbian Kit Marlowe. <.<

[strange_selkie]

Hee!

(I ascribe to the "do one thing, do it well" school of writing. I tried writing about some straight people once, and ended up in a gigglefit of epic proportions.)

[strange_selkie]

Sorry for the Dreaded Double, but there is a book on Google Books or Virtual Library or something called "It Was Marlowe" that was written in 1895 and is like a highway wreck of a caramel-sauce truck and a poultry van as far as its levels of cracky conjecture and WOEFUL dialogue. You should look it up!