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  "thread": {
    "id": 1495,
    "subject": "Dorcas drowned",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "1999-04-07T20:56:00+00:00",
    "last": "1999-04-07T20:56:00+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0025-0021@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "m.driussi",
        "address": "m.driussi at genie.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-04-07T20:56:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Dorcas drowned",
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          "text": "Cliff Drane,\n\nThank you for your kind words about the Lexicon.  It doesn't give the\nname of the boatman, I don't think, but Robert Borski and I are in\nthe habit of calling him one version or another of \"Charon,\" since he\nis so obviously linked to the ferryman of the dead.\n\nI suppose when we all grow up and get serious we will call him\n\"Boatman I, XXII\" (\"boatman eye-twenty-two\") in contrast to \"Boatman\nI, II.\"\n\nI'm delighted by your observations and speculations since I've had\nthem myself!  My essay \"Gene Wolfe at the Lake of Birds\" (in\n\"Foundation\" No. 66, 1996) covered some of the Lady of the Lake\nelements as well as the \"was Dorcas accidentally murdered by her\nhusband?\" mystery (I think it quite likely that she was--especially\nsince =she= also seems to remember being dropped into the water!--but\nmaintain the ambiguity).\n\n=mantis="
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