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  "thread": {
    "id": 1761,
    "subject": "Dyslexic Severian",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1999-08-28T11:12:54+00:00",
    "last": "1999-08-28T11:12:54+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0080@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Charles Dye",
        "address": "raster at highfiber.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-08-28T11:12:54+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: Dyslexic Severian",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Peter Westlake <peter at harlequin.co.uk> writes:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Still, I can still say that he gets lost as often as not,\nand suggest that he just can't tell left from right, rather\nthan having them consistently backwards."
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          "text": "I've noticed this myself, and wondered if Severian might not be\nspacially dyslexic -- not a terribly uncommon disorder.  I have\na couple of questions.\n\nFirst, do we ever learn *which* of Severian's legs is injured\nin the cavalry battle at Orithiya?  I haven't been able to spot\nit, if we are.  It seems to me almost as if Sev uses the wound\nas a convenient way to tell his feet apart:  good leg, bad leg.\n\nSecond, does anybody understand how Severian can look out\nthrough the left eye of west-facing Mount Typhon and see a\nbattle to the northeast?  Something very strange going on here.\n(Yes, the mountain does indeed face west, else the statues would\nnot be able to salute the sunset.  And it's Typhon, not Sev, who\nidentifies the eyes.)\n\n(Say:  giants mistaken for towers, the boat which descends to\nascend....  I do believe there's a little Dante mixed in with the\nMatthew 4 in the Typhon sequence.  Hadn't noticed that before.\nIt might help explain why Typhon needs more than one face, too.)\n\nraster at highfiber.com"
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