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  "thread": {
    "id": 1298,
    "subject": "Catherine the Weal",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-12-16T11:09:11+00:00",
    "last": "1998-12-16T11:09:11+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0022-0036@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David_Lebling",
        "address": "david_lebling at avid.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-12-16T11:09:11+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Catherine the Weal",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Does anyone have any thoughts on Clute's \"Catherine the Weal\" theory?  I've\nonly now had a chance to read his essay in _Strokes_ where he propounds it.\n\nWhat do I think?  As I read it I became more and more convinced he's right,\nbut less and less sure after I finished.  Some questions...\n\n* Don't we know \"for sure\" that the old Autarch was probably a bee-keeper\nin the House Absolute, probably named Appian? As I recall, most of the\nevidence for this is post-_Strokes_, so Clute couldn't have known of it.\n\n* Aren't we pretty darn sure that Sev's mother was an exultant or at least\nan armiger, because of his height?  We know his paternal grandparents, and\nneither was of high (e.g., tall) social class, though his father resembles\nhim.  So, his height presumably comes from his mother's side.  The old\nAutarch isn't terribly tall (or is he?).  On the other hand, the \"girl from\nthe town\" who plays Holy Catherine (another popular candidate) isn't\ndescribed as being tall or looking at all high-class.\n\n* On the other hand, the old Autarch is described so often in terms either\nfeminine or androgynous that I can see Clute's point. Wolfe seldom wastes\nso many words pointing to nothing.  Of course, he is also described as\nbeing \"not like other men,\" (by which the speakers generally mean, \"a\neunuch,\" that maybe that's all there is (ha!).\n\n     -- Dave Lebling\n     (aka vizcacha)\n     (david_lebling at avid.com)"
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      ]
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