On 30-4-2014 20:51, Stephen wrote:
> On 30/04/2014 8:14 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
>> On 29-4-2014 22:19, Stephen wrote:
>>> On 29/04/2014 9:09 PM, Stephen wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Go back another twenty years and they would be mostly lead popes.
>>>
>>> I think I meant pipes. Lead pipes not lead Popes. :-)
>>>
>>
>> Somehow, those /lead popes/ trigger my imagination... :-)
>>
>> Thomas
>
> Edgar Allan Poe, anyone? ;-)
>
No not really Poe, although dark enough indeed. It combines to me more 
with what in Italy were called the /Years of Lead/ (anni di piombo).

Lead popes would suggest to me a period of oppressive religion. An 
interesting topic for an SF novel in a distopian world.

Thomas

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