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  "thread": {
    "id": 1149,
    "subject": "The Name of the House Azure",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-10-09T23:04:57+00:00",
    "last": "1998-10-09T23:04:57+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0019-0076@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "CRCulver",
        "address": "crculver at aol.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-10-09T23:04:57+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) The Name of the House Azure",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Robert Borski said:\n<I'm also wondering, in light of the above, if anyone can link the two\n(Valeria, Azure) to the passage in CITADEL where Severian, recalling the first\ntime he met the old autarch, mentions the House Azure, and then\nparenthetically adds, \"whose odd name I was now, perhaps, beginning to grasp.\""
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        {
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          "text": "I don't think Valeria has to do with the name of the House Azure, and the\nsignificance of the name lies in almost the last line of the BotNS proper,\nwhere Severian says he has brought us to the final gate, the sky. The sky is\nazure, and it is at the House Azure that certain key portions of his journey\ntowards Yesod and the heliogenesis of the New Sun take place (i.e., the\nAutarch fingering the phallic vial).\n\nChristopher R. Culver <crculver at aol.com>\nhttp://members.aol.com/crculver/index.html\n------------------------------------------------"
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