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  "thread": {
    "id": 1555,
    "subject": "Digest urth.v025.n015",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1999-04-21T09:32:02+00:00",
    "last": "1999-04-21T09:32:02+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0025-0110@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Charles Dye",
        "address": "raster at highfiber.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-04-21T09:32:02+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: Digest urth.v025.n015",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Dan Rabin <danrabin at a.crl.com> writes:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Robert Borski writes:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "....and one night when my guards were chattering among themselves and I sat\ncrouched over our little fire, I saw the old guide (his bent figure and the\nimpression of an immense head conferred by his mask were unmistakable)\napproach this palanquin [holding the Old Autarch (DR)] and slip beneath it.\nSome time passed before he scuttled away.  This old man was said to be an\n_uturuncu_, a shaman capable of assuming the form of a tiger."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "The bent figure meets descriptions of Father Inire elsewhere.  Father Inire\nis a Hierodule; Hierodules wear masks.  Father Inire is in the habit of\nconferring with the Autarch.   [clip]\n\nSo, Robert is wrong: we *do* actually meet Father Inire in the main\nnarrative, and Robert is right, masks have to do with the matter."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Father Inire might even appear twice.  In Chapter XXI of \"Claw\", the old\nAutarch sends Severian away in the custody of \"a bent little man\" in a\n\"cowled habit like a cenobite's.\"  Severian takes little notice of this\nservant, though he is instantly available to the Autarch in the Secret\nHouse.  No mention of a mask in this episode, however.\n\nraster at highfiber.com"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
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