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  "thread": {
    "id": 1407,
    "subject": "\"Robert\" in _Shadow_ Digest urth.v024.n005",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "1999-03-02T15:32:16+00:00",
    "last": "1999-03-02T15:32:16+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0024-0033@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "John Bishop",
        "address": "jbishop at blkbrd.zko.dec.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-03-02T15:32:16+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: \"Robert\" in _Shadow_ Digest urth.v024.n005",
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          "text": "I think all or most of the little asides are a reference\nto something; the airplane is a clue which I can't decipher,\nbut if there isn't a (reasonably) famous Robert and Marie\nin a jungle in the 1920s-1970s time frame, I'll be surprised.\nThe naked \"native\" is a clue; and the dialog might well be\nlifted/approximated.\n\nAlong those lines, there are three paintings we see described\nin Severian's visit to the Library: one is explained (the \nastronaut on the Moon), but the other two are a mystery to me.\nHas some other person figured them out?\n\nI did catch that when Valeria translates the \"Latin\" (which\nWolfe tells us is used to stand in for another langauge), \nshe gets it wrong.  I _think_ this is meant to be humorous,\nand a hint that she's trying to impress Severian; it may be\nalso a hint to us that some things _aren't_ what they seem.\n\n\t-John"
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