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  "thread": {
    "id": 1550,
    "subject": "Inire & the Flood",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1999-04-18T22:52:42+00:00",
    "last": "1999-04-18T22:52:42+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0025-0103@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Roy C. Lackey",
        "address": "rclackey at stic.net"
      },
      "date": "1999-04-18T22:52:42+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Inire & the Flood",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "    I just keep dancing around these religious themes, don't I? Fortunately,\nmy hooves are iron-shod and I may trod where angels fear to step but\nlightly. <g>\n\nPotto wrote:\n\n<snip>"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "\". By striving to make the New Sun a"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "reality, Inire helps bring a new Deluge to Urth, ultimately\nexterminating the people of the Commonwealth; would it to be fair to\nregard him as an instrument of Divine justice, of God in His Ire\npunishing the human race for the excesses of the past (the First\nEmpire, Typhon, or civilization in general)? Needless to say, I don't\nsee the birth of Ushas as an unalloyed blessing; Severian writes of\n\"what I have done to Urth\", and he has always seemed to me a dupe of\nthe Increate, the carrier of a merciless judgement.<<\n\nAnd mantis wrote:\n\n<snip>"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "(I =think= she meant this in the sense of a transition from the God of the\nOld Testament to the God of the New Testament; and, in the Urth sense, that\nif the Powers were still angry they would just let Urth continue crawling\ntoward the icey eternal grave.)<<"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "<snip>\n\n    You didn't notice any rainbows in the skies of Ushas, did you? Perhaps\nHe didn't want to be reminded of His broken covenant of the ninth chapter of\nGenesis. Maybe He just forgot. (But Wolves have long memories.) Or maybe,\njust maybe, He Who Laughs won this round. When Sev, who is the New Sun,\nfollowing small Tzadkiel's directions, departed the Brook Madregot to arrive\nin Urth's final hours, he did so with the sound of Fallen Tzadkiel's\nlaughter chiming in his ear.\n\nRoy"
        }
      ]
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