Originally posted by Cogidubnus
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Like a lot of things, we have assumptions predicated on other assumptions.
I did like Mike R's (who I can't help picturing as looking like Kramer; sorry about that) suggestion that the rag may have been used to carry the kidney, rather than clean the knife, because cleaning the knife while retreating seems like a good way to cut oneself. It could be that there was a jar, or something else that had been thrown away-- or even newspaper-- that seemed like a better option for carrying the kidney, and so it got discarded there. If it was the entrance to a block of residences, is it where people would put out garbage? I realize that people didn't have as much trash as they do now, because everything didn't come in wrappers, and people never used disposable things, but they did have food waste, and occasionally broken plates or things, ashes when they cleaned grates, and old newspapers. Was there some kind of regular trash pick-up?
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