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  "archive": "urth",
  "thread": {
    "id": 1093,
    "subject": "Sev's decendants",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-09-04T18:32:25+00:00",
    "last": "1998-09-04T18:32:25+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0018-0108@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "J. Schultz",
        "address": "jschultz at wcnet.org"
      },
      "date": "1998-09-04T18:32:25+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Sev's decendants",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "The quote in question:\"Remembering that, it was simple enough to guess who\nmy priest's forbears had been - the sailors routed by my memories had\npaid for their defeat with their pasts, just as I would have lost the\nfuture of my descendants had my own past been defeated.\"  I have always\ninterpreted this as meaning that the sailor's have had their memories wiped\nand been 'abandoned' on Ushas to begin the human race anew.  'future of my\ndescendents' I had once thought to refer to the ritual castration that\nAppian had to go through.  On a closer look that would not be the punishment\nfor Sev's defeat as the castration was simply a tool by which Sev would be\nguaranteed ascension to the Pheonix Throne.  I now believe that Sev's\ndescendents refers metephorically to all the creatures of Ushas whose\ngenesis has been made possible by Sev.\n\nAs to what was conceived between Sev and Apheta:  \"That something was\nmyself\"  The White Fountain.  Sev always refers to the white fountain\ncoursing through space as a second and sentient self.\n\nFunkMonkey\nJ. Schutlz\njschultz at wcnet.org"
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      ]
    }
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