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  "thread": {
    "id": 1196,
    "subject": "Severian in the Encyclopedia",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "1998-10-16T12:44:08+00:00",
    "last": "1998-10-16T12:44:08+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0020-0039@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alex David Groce",
        "address": "adgroce at eos.ncsu.edu"
      },
      "date": "1998-10-16T12:44:08+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Severian in the Encyclopedia",
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          "text": "\tWell, there may be some question as to which Severian Wolfe was\nthinking of.  The heretic sect Severians (who are indeed in the online Catholic\nEncyclopedia at www.knight.org/advent) are better known as the Encratites, and\nit is under that name that you will find them online.\n\tHowever, there is also an entry for Severian.  The Severians are\nactually named after a man named Severus mentionied in Eusebius' Hist. Eccl.\n(and a mention is all he gets in the article on the Encratites, and he doesn't\nappear to have an article of his own).\n\tSeverian was a bishop who battled with St. John Chrysostom, but doesn't\nappear to have been a heretic (he was noted as a good preacher, and apparently\ngood at church politics).  Assuming Wolfe didn't play around with the names\n(not neccessarily a safe bet) it looks like this is our Severian's namesake.\nI'll type up the article and send it to the online encyclopedia and to the\nmailing list.  I may go ahead and also transcribe and post the article on\nSeverus, the Roman emperor, which given the Claudian connections might also be\nrelevant.\n\n\tJust an amusing side note--the facing pages in the CE with the entries\non Severian and Severus end with an entry relevant to Wolfe's perennial\nfavorite, Proust--an article on Madame de Sevigne!"
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          "text": "\"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.\" - John 8:32\n--\nAlex David Groce (adgroce at eos.ncsu.edu)\nSenior (Computer Science/Multidisciplinary Studies in Technology & Fiction)\n'98-99 NCSU AITP Student Chapter President\n608 Charleston Road, Apt. 1E (919)-233-7366\nhttp://www4.ncsu.edu/~adgroce"
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