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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/1616",
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  "thread": {
    "id": 1616,
    "subject": "Sorry, but he used the \"B\" word",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1999-05-05T09:42:20+00:00",
    "last": "1999-05-05T09:42:20+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0026-0088@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Tony Ellis",
        "address": "tony.ellis at futurenet.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "1999-05-05T09:42:20+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Sorry, but he used the \"B\" word",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Roy C Lackey wrote:\n...And the clincher is this: after getting inside and struggling with\nSidero for control -- a contest which he wins, because he is a human -- he\nforces Sidero to go back and get his weapons and belt. He then puts the belt\non \" ... and buckled it around Sidero's waist without a thumb's width to\nspare.\" (second page of ch. IX) How much slack would there be in his belt?\nSix inches? Eight? Bulky, Sidero ain't."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "So Sidero has a trim waistline for a suit of animated armour; I'm\npleased for him. He also has knees and ankles big enough to thrust a\nbooted foot through, and a chest cavity big enough to contain the\n-whole- of Severian. It's only -after- Sidero has closed his chest, with\nSeverian inside, that Sev starts pushing his arms and legs into\nSidero's.\n\nIf you regard these as human-sized proportions, I hope I never spill\nyour beer.\n\n(As for Sev taking off his knife and gun belt to get in: bear in mind\nthat the blade of this knife alone is about two spans (18\") long. Stick\na handle on that, and add one of those hunting-knife sheaths with a\nseparate pocket, and a gun, and holster, and you can see his point.)"
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