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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/1098",
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  "archive": "urth",
  "thread": {
    "id": 1098,
    "subject": "Father Inire",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-09-04T19:00:38+00:00",
    "last": "1998-09-04T19:00:38+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0018-0116@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "J. Schultz",
        "address": "jschultz at wcnet.org"
      },
      "date": "1998-09-04T19:00:38+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Father Inire",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "[quoting mantis]"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 3,
          "text": "Happily, Inire seems to be just enamoured by little exultantesses, and\nthere\nis no evidence of his actually molesting them. Boy, wouldn't that be an\nembarassment to the reign of the Autarch Severian."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "I certainly hope no one reading this list thinks that Charles Lutwidge\nDodgson (Lewis Carroll) molested any children. He didn't. He also wasn't a\nchild pornographer - mantis was joking (I hope)."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "In fact, Inire seems decidedly un-Carrollian in the \"Father Inire's\nMirrors\"\nepisode.  He takes Domnina away without her parents' permission; he\nfrightens her; his explanations seem to confuse rather than educate.\nHe speaks general relativity, rather than charming nonsense.\n\nStill, the connection is definitely there.  Mirrors and little girls.  And\nnotice how coyly Father Inire drops the name \"pleasance?\""
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Remember that this story is told by a young woman, who heard it as a young\ngirl, who heard it from a young girl, about a mysterious figure.  Father\nInire's role in the HA is not even understood by the Exultants, who wonder\nif FI is the true leader of the common wealth.  Thecla's purpose in telling\nthe story is most likely akin to telling a ghost story.  (\"Whooo, the scary\nmonkey-man who lives in the walls of the House Absolute!)\n\nFunkMonkey\nJ. Schutlz\njschultz at wcnet.org"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
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