On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Ken Follett wrote:

> I recall experience using dynamite in the 70's to blast bedrock inside of a
> building. I also had a friend blow off a few fingers mixing explosives in his
> basement. He was the last person I purchased acid from. Both experiences were
> contemporary. I think I was tripping by night and blasting by day. This was
> pre-preservation.

A fellow I knew in middle school lost one of his fingers while making a
pipe bomb.  Supposedly some of the toilets in my high school were
destroyed by cherry bombs and the like, but I never actually saw the
supposed damage.

Me, I never touched the stuff.  The closest I came was some childhood
drawings of a super-strong building, vaguely Egyptian in style with a
spherical interior, designed to contain the blast from experimental
explosives.  An innovative urban land use.

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