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  "thread": {
    "id": 1563,
    "subject": "(no subject)",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "1999-04-21T21:49:12+00:00",
    "last": "1999-04-21T21:49:12+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0026-0006@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan Rabin",
        "address": "danrabin at a.crl.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-04-21T21:49:12+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth)",
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          "text": "Robert Borski writes:"
        },
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          "text": "Now for the clues I mentioned. Notice that the uturuncu carries \"a staff\ncrooked as himself, topped with the dried head of a monkey.\" Who else\ncarries a similar staff? Moreover, this staff-carrier has a mythic\nname--which makes him an alien. I also mentioned him in a post not that\nvery long ago. (Think younger, earlier--a herald.)"
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          "text": "That would be Ceryx, zombificator Zamae.  _Lexicon Urthus_ tells us his\nname means \"a herald\".  But he seems most unlike Inire to me.\n\nOn the other hand, Severian gets the definite feeling that Ceryx had\ntraveled by similar paths.  Maybe he represents a sort of \"Dark side of the\nForce\".\n\n  -- Dan Rabin"
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