tonbei
2019-11-24 05:13:13 UTC
I have a question about the following sentences from a novel. Sorry for a long quote.
"I'll make the call (* to McLean)' Anne says to him as he leaves. "I'll get it arranged with
McLean and take care of the scan."
It's been a theoretical possibility this day would come, and we are cleared
with the Board of Health, and with Harvard and its affiliate McLean Hospital,
which has four magnets ranging in strength from 1.5 to 9 Tesla. Long ago I made
sure the protocols were in place to do MRls on dead bodies in McLean's neuroimaging
lab, where Anne works as a part-time MRtech for psychiatric research
studies. That's how I got her.
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"If that's what you want, we can do it right now," Anne is saying to me.
"There shouldn't be a problem, won't be anyone around. We'll just go right up to
the front door(* of McLean) and get him(* the dead body) in and out."
At this hour, psychiatric patients at McLean won't be wandering around the
campus. There's little risk of them happening upon a dead body being carried in
or out of a lab.
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I reply: "Let's get going. I want him(* the dead body) posted and safely out of sight before everyone
start arriving for work.
(Port Mortuary by P.Cornwell)
Context: They're talking about carrying a dead body to McLean, and doing scan on the body with
the hospital's MRI. There won't be many people around there if they take the body there that hour.
question: about "want him posted"
I couldn't get a certain sense of "posted" here.
I assumed various meanings for it.
1) get the body delivered to the hospital
2) get the body shown/ scanned
What do you think is meant by "want him posted"?
"I'll make the call (* to McLean)' Anne says to him as he leaves. "I'll get it arranged with
McLean and take care of the scan."
It's been a theoretical possibility this day would come, and we are cleared
with the Board of Health, and with Harvard and its affiliate McLean Hospital,
which has four magnets ranging in strength from 1.5 to 9 Tesla. Long ago I made
sure the protocols were in place to do MRls on dead bodies in McLean's neuroimaging
lab, where Anne works as a part-time MRtech for psychiatric research
studies. That's how I got her.
(- omitted - )
"If that's what you want, we can do it right now," Anne is saying to me.
"There shouldn't be a problem, won't be anyone around. We'll just go right up to
the front door(* of McLean) and get him(* the dead body) in and out."
At this hour, psychiatric patients at McLean won't be wandering around the
campus. There's little risk of them happening upon a dead body being carried in
or out of a lab.
(- omitted - )
I reply: "Let's get going. I want him(* the dead body) posted and safely out of sight before everyone
start arriving for work.
(Port Mortuary by P.Cornwell)
Context: They're talking about carrying a dead body to McLean, and doing scan on the body with
the hospital's MRI. There won't be many people around there if they take the body there that hour.
question: about "want him posted"
I couldn't get a certain sense of "posted" here.
I assumed various meanings for it.
1) get the body delivered to the hospital
2) get the body shown/ scanned
What do you think is meant by "want him posted"?