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    "id": 128,
    "subject": "*SPOILERS* Gene Wolfe's \"Book of the New Sun\" annotation, Part I",
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    "first": "1995-08-22T04:40:51+00:00",
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      "message_id": "<sflovers-v20-288-7@digest.sf-lovers>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Geoff Alex Cohen",
        "address": "gac at cs.duke.edu"
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      "date": "1995-08-22T04:40:51+00:00",
      "subject": "*SPOILERS* Gene Wolfe's \"Book of the New Sun\" annotation, Part I",
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          "text": "This is the first of probably many postings of an attempt to annotate Gene\nWolfe's magnum opus, \"The Book of the New Sun.\"  Needless to say, this\ncontains many major spoilers.  You shouldn't read this until you've read\nthe series three times.\n\nYour help and submissions will be very appreciated.  I will archive\nthese in my web site, http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gac/wolfe.html.\n\n*SPOILERS*\n\nThe Book of the New Sun Annotiation Initiative (BONSAI)\n_The Shadow of the Torturer_, Chapter I\n\nCompiled by Geoff Cohen, gac at cs.duke.edu\nVersion 1.0\n\nEpigraph:  \"A thousand ages in your sight...\"\n   Part of the poem \"Psalm XC\" by Isaac Watts (1674-1748) [Otter]\n\nChapter I:  Resurrection and Death\n   The title reverses the usual order of things.\n\n\"We are the volunteers... we come to protect our own dead.\"\n   The intruders who are about to appear will steal the bodies of the dead\n   to ingest them and absorb their knowledge.  See _Claw_, Chapter XI.\n\n\"I... collided full tilt with a man in a black coat.\"\n   This is Hildegrin the Badger.  He is properly introduced in Chapter\n   XXIII.\n\n\"A woman said, 'Open the lamp.'\"\n   This is Thea, Thecla's sister, who is first named in _Shadow_, Chapter\n   VII, and Severian meets in _Claw_, Chapter X.\n\n\"...I have backed into the throne.\"\n   Severian becomes Autarch."
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