A Flying Battering Ram

This is the time of night when I want to add one more post but do not want to have to do too much reading to do it. Other reading calls. What to do? Name the members of Manse Everard's team when he attacks a house in Paris in 1307? Already done. See:

Team Work And Individual Excellence

But I have found an interesting detail in the text. The door of the house is massive and barred on the inside. It must be entered quickly but not in any way that will seem to be supernatural. Yan fires from a mortar a large hardwood missile that half tears the door from its hinges and snaps the bar. Manse and the others except for Yan who stays with their single outsized timecycle run in. The missile will be left behind, generating the impression that several alarmingly strong men had wielded a battering ram - but the sensation about the arrest of the Templars will soon distract Parisians from any alarm about this otherwise unremarkable robbery. This is a detail that I had entirely forgotten until I reread the opening paragraphs of this concluding section just now, looking for something new to post about.

Now back to Stieg Larsson's Stockholm. Other activities in Lancaster tomorrow.

(I remember a flying battering ram in the bottled city of Kandor in a Superman comic.)