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  "thread": {
    "id": 1308,
    "subject": "Sex, Lies, and no Videotape",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-12-17T16:04:01+00:00",
    "last": "1998-12-17T16:04:01+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0022-0052@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David_Lebling",
        "address": "david_lebling at avid.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-12-17T16:04:01+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Sex, Lies, and no Videotape",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "From: m.driussi at genie.com\nOne of Greg Feeley's list of \"Severian's lies\" is in chapter four,\nwhen Valeria mentions the Tower of Torment \"where all who enter die\nin agony.\""
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Quote Severian: \"I told her that, at least, was a fable.\""
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Then again, Feeley was flexible enough to note that the lie was based\non the technicallity that the torturers themselves entered (and\nexited) on a daily basis without dying in agony.  FWIW!"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I haven't seen Feeley's list, so I'm making my own mistakes here; however,\nI agree with him.\n\nIn further exculpation, it is stated elsewhere that every now and then (but\nnot often) someone is released from the Tower, so Sev gets a pass there,\ntoo.  Admittedly, this is sort of a (*cough*) clintonian evasion (\"It\ndepends on what you mean by 'all.'\")"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Re: lessons learned in Thecla's cell.  Well, as you say, there is no\nguarantee that Canog's BOTNS had a nifty timeline in it--plus, while\nSeverian is said to be an excellent student, it is plain that the\nsubject of his study in Thecla's cell was, er, more carnal than\nspiritual.  He wasn't paying attention to =that= when he had =this=.\nAnd yet, perhaps it crept in anyway, just not at the conscious level."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Hmm.  Sev remembers various stories from the brown book, but not _TBotNS_?\nI guess that confirms that the version he was reading wasn't the same as\nthe one we read!\n\n     -- Dave Lebling\n     (aka vizcacha)\n     (david_lebling at avid.com)"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
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