>>You are right, of course. It had already occured to me that some readers would think about methods to "get out of the country", though not necessarily alive. In this case, however, the idea is to get out alive.
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>>Hilmar.
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>Seriously, I was going to suggest running for 5 minutes out & changing direction, to get to the point where you be if you ran 7 minutes from the far side.
That's the correct solution. The guard would "send him back", out of the country.
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
