This has puzzled me for years, since where does it come from?
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Michael Scott, pinned in his fiery niche in hell, with a bar of ice through
his head and another through his heart.
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The proximate location is Rachel Annan Taylor's book on William Dunbar in
the thirties of the last century, and it might go back to either Walter
Scott or Dante.
But bugger me if I can trace it.
(And yes, before anyone points this out, Michael Scott indeed burns in the
Inferno, but not in those words.)
Given that RAT had barely three braincells to rub together, she has to have
lifted this from *somewhere.
Baffled from Pimlico
The Third Peril of Women
