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  "thread": {
    "id": 1137,
    "subject": "MIAs",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-10-07T17:35:59+00:00",
    "last": "1998-10-07T17:35:59+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0019-0061@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Robert Borski",
        "address": "rborski at coredcs.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-10-07T17:35:59+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) MIAs",
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          "text": "Don't believe this has been addressed yet, but in LEXICON URTHUS, the\nfollowing question is asked: \"What were the names of the journeymen Master\nGurloes sent in search of the House Absolute and what ever became of them?\n\nHere's who I believe they are and what happened to them.\n\nIn CLAW, present at the excruciation of Thecla's handmaiden are Master\nGurloes, and three assistants--Odo, Mennas and Eigil. Later, in CASTLE, we\nlearn these three are indeed journeymen, as we would expect, given the\nmasterfulness of their full-boot skinning. This leads me to believe they\nmay be senior journeymen, and given the importance of Thecla (the first\nconcubine Gurloes has ever had from the autarch's inner circle), it stands\nto reason he may have sent his most experienced journeymen to the House\nAbsolute, which is not as we learn easy to find.\n\nWe never hear mention of Odo, Mennas and Eigil again, and they are not\npresent when Thecla is later placed in the revolutionary.\n\nAs for where they end up, when Roche and Severian are at the House Azure\nfor their night of pleasure, the \"Chatelaine Thecla\" warns Severian about\npossibly hitting her when he raises his hand to the khaibit. Says she:\n\"There are people here to protect me...Three men.\"\n\nSeverian doubts her, but doesn't strike her; he taunts her to scream and\ndraw these three men, but she refuses.\n\nLater, however, just before they make love, the naked Severian is told by\nfake Thecla: \"You must be clothed in favor, remember. Otherwise you will be\ngiven over to the torturers.\" The phrase itself may be part of Thecla's\nreligious instruction, since just before this they're talking about the\ntheocenter; but it still seems a clue.\n\nCould it be that, under impress of the Autarch,  Odo, Mennas and Eigil have\nwound up at the House Azure as troubleshooters? Torturers do seem to have\nthe same sort of knowledge about nerve clusters that martial artists do.\nAnd who better to roust out malcontents than members of the Order of\nSeekers for Truth and Penitence, who are widely feared?\n\nRobert Borski"
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