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  "thread": {
    "id": 1424,
    "subject": "Beuzec",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1999-03-10T03:21:36+00:00",
    "last": "1999-03-10T03:21:36+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0024-0053@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Roy C. Lackey",
        "address": "rclackey at stic.net"
      },
      "date": "1999-03-10T03:21:36+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Beuzec",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "    I know this character was discussed last summer, but not much came of\nit. In re-reading _Claw_ I was struck by the fact that Beuzec never has a\nspeaking part and serves no real plot function. He might as well not be\nthere. This set off alarm bells, particularly as Sev supposes Beuzec to have\ndisappeared into the walls of the House Absolute, never to be seen again.\nThen he states that these recesses are said to be \"inhabited by a species of\nwhite wolf\" (chapter XIX). I find that to be, literally, unlikely. But,\ngiven Wolfe's propensity for interjecting himself into his stories,\nmetaphorically it could be that there is indeed a \"white Wolfe\" there.\n    Further, I offer these lines, pasted from a translation of a French web\npage dealing with Saint Budoc. Beuzec is but one of several forms of that\nname.\n\n* Biography and/or legend\nThe late legend of Budoc says that he is the son of holy Azénor and the\ncount de Goëllo. His/her mother, rejected by her husband who believes that\nit is pregnant of another man, is condemned to be locked up in a barrel and\npier at sea. When the barrel was opened, Azénor came out with a baby: Budoc.\nCollected to the monastery of Beauport close to Waterford with his mother,\nit would have passed her youth to Ireland.\n\nMonk missionnaire it would have évangélisé Cornwall and would have become\nabbot of the monastery of Youghal where it had covered the frieze. Its Vita\nsays that to escape dignity archiépiscopale it would have passed to armoric\nBrittany in a stone coffin. Unloaded in Porspoder (Finistère) it would be\nfinally establishes in Plourin-Ploudalmézeau (Finistère). Tradition reports\nthat it went to Dol where it arose to the Magloire bishop, who accepted it\nlike an envoy of the sky, awaiting only this opportunity to resign its load.\nBudoc wisely controlled the diocese during 20 years.\n\n\n    \"- In the calendar of Supplementum missalis AD normam one finds at\nDecember 9: Budoc, archbishop of Fraud (of the 8 déc.)\"\n\n    \"- Lavret island (Coast-in Armor), the tradition says that the monastery\nof the saint was in this island, close to Bréhat.\"\n\n    Archbishop of Fraud? Bréhat=Briah? There is more, but I think the\ntranslation suffers from political correctness, and I don't speak French.\nFWIW.\n\nRoy"
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