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  "thread": {
    "id": 1123,
    "subject": "Pas' personality",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1998-10-02T18:16:32+00:00",
    "last": "1998-10-07T09:08:22+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0019-0038@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Derek Bell",
        "address": "dbell at maths.tcd.ie"
      },
      "date": "1998-10-02T18:16:32+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Pas' personality",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "In message <199810020528.WAA12742 at lists1.best.com>, marc at continuumsi.com writes\n:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "On an unrelated not, it seems clear that Pas is the avatar of\nTyphon/Piaton (unless there are other two-headed all-powerful\nmonarchs floating around capable of building generation ships).\nBut Pas seems to be a mostly benevolent figure, at least compared\nto Echidna, Scylla, etc...  Whereas, Typhon was clearly a bastard...\nGuess you'd have to chalk that one up to programmer's error, heh."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "\tMaybe he was upgraded: Pas 2.0 - even more\nworshipper-friendly!! (Typhon was a buggy alpha release.) ;-)\n\n\tDerek"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0019-0059@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Straight",
        "address": "straight at email.unc.edu"
      },
      "date": "1998-10-07T09:08:22+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Pas' personality",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0019-0038@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I guess this should go in the Whorl list, but I'll keep it here where\npeople have been discussing it.  Spoilers for the Long Sun books follow."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Marc wrote:\nOn an unrelated not, it seems clear that Pas is the avatar of\nTyphon/Piaton (unless there are other two-headed all-powerful\nmonarchs floating around capable of building generation ships).\nBut Pas seems to be a mostly benevolent figure, at least compared\nto Echidna, Scylla, etc...  Whereas, Typhon was clearly a bastard...\nGuess you'd have to chalk that one up to programmer's error, heh."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "You have to remember that Pas was killed (erased from Mainframe).  The\n\"Pas\" we see is a version cobbled together from the splinters of himself\nthat Pas was able to hide here and there.  It's not clear how much of the\noriginal Pas gets pulled together.  \n\nRemember also the vision that Kypris(?) shows Silk of Pas with Silk's face\nreplacing one of Pas's heads.  The interesting question is, Which head? \nIf Silk replaces the slave's head, that would imply that Kypris wants Silk\nto be the host body for Pas's personality in the way that Chenille served\nfor Scylla.  But if Silk is replacing Typhon's original head, that might\nimply that the \"Pas\" program is crippled and that Silk's personality might\nbe used to replace what is missing, possibly dominating Typhon's\npersonality.\n\nI like to think that perhaps Kypris already downloaded Silk's personality\nwhen she showed him that vision and that \"Pas\" is now an amalgamation of\nSilk and Typhon. \n\n-Rostrum"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
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