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  "thread": {
    "id": 1006,
    "subject": "Sanderson's Abandonment",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-07-17T23:26:00+00:00",
    "last": "1998-07-17T23:26:00+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0017-0035@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Robert Borski",
        "address": "rborski at coredcs.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-07-17T23:26:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Sanderson's Abandonment",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Earlier, in regards to my Continuing Westward post, Sean Whalen (aka prion)\nwrote:\n\n\"This seems to fit, but how does it fit in that he originally thought\nthat she stabbed Sanderson?  He didn't just decide to leave him, he\nthought that he was dead.\"\n\nThis may relate to some aspect of a Kipling short story (The Phantom\nRickshaw?), but I'm not sure--it's been 30+ years since I read SOLDIERS\nTHREE and the other collections. Or it may be simple irony. Paris, the\nGreat Seducer, undone by his own lust (whereas the Paris of legend stakes a\nclaim to the most beautiful woman in the world and precipitates a war).\n\nOf course, all of the Homeric correspondences are rather loosely clumped\ntogether--hence the notion of Greek Odysseus and Trojan Paris as\nshipmates--so the search for parallels my be intriniscally flawed to begin\nwith, at least if we expect 100% fidelity with the Illiad/Odyssey.\n\nAlso, what I forgot to mention in my Cherry Jubilee piece is that KGB agent\nVera Oussenko, who, as you mention, is arrested, represents truth, which\nshe is seeking, even though she gets it wrong (Vera = veritas), only in the\ninverted value system of CJ she's \"punished\"--not being allowed to\ndisembark, she's spared the hell of Mars.\n\nRobert Borski"
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