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  "thread": {
    "id": 1817,
    "subject": "Metaphors",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "1999-10-04T09:38:08+00:00",
    "last": "1999-10-04T09:38:08+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0168@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David Lebling",
        "address": "david_lebling at avid.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-10-04T09:38:08+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Metaphors",
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          "text": "Roy C. Lackey, on Dorcas:\n<<She then recalled to Sev Dr. Talos's labeling him as Death, which\nSev said was a metaphor. She said it was a bad metaphor and, as they were\nwalking back to the others, Sev wondered to himself if \"Dr. Talos's calling\nDorcas \"Innocence\" had not been a metaphor of the same kind.\">>\n\nEvery time I read _Shadow_, I'm convinced that Dr. Talos meant the attribution\nthe other way, that Severian was Innocence and Dorcas was Death.  I know that a\nclose reading of the immediately following text doesn't support that view, but\nit just feels right to me.  As an exercise, tally up the occasions when Dorcas\ncorrects an innocent or naive opinion expressed by Severian: there are quite a\nfew.\n\n     Dave Lebling\n     (aka vizcacha)"
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