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  "thread": {
    "id": 197,
    "subject": "Grab Bag",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1997-09-07T22:31:00+00:00",
    "last": "1997-09-07T22:31:00+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0004-0291@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "m.driussi",
        "address": "m.driussi at genie.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-09-07T22:31:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Grab Bag",
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          "text": "Reply:  Item #9830350 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01#\n\nalga,\n\nToday I'm thinking that this \"Tracking Song\" and \"Tale of a Boy\nCalled Frog\" is strong enough to bring us back around to the\n\"Changeling\" models of Cutthroat origin, reinforced by the Mantru\n\"Ishi\" line of reasoning.  That is to say: I'm not coming up with\nanything new here, only just maybe reviving some chestnuts and\nputting them in a new string; but it seems likely that Cutthroat is\n=not, not, not= from the Great Sleigh, he is a remnant of the surface\ndwelling humans, last of his tribe, who set out walking after the\ndeath of the last other human he knew.  (Glossing over his amnesia,\nglossing over his unusual neck mark).\n\nSo this is why Cutthroat is kind of like a changeling; why Cim could\nthink him a beastman in Sleigh-clothes; why the Min would see him as\nhuman but still test him.  He has the human hardware (genetic\nmaterial) but not the Sleigher software (high tech whatnot).\n\nOr, in other words: a last survivor of an earlier colonization wave\nmakes his way through the frozen \"jungle\" of beastmen, robomen (I'm\nstill holding out against \"cyborg\" here because we agree they are\nmore like \"jonases\" [robo-cum-human] than \"bionic men\" [augmented\nhumans, scanners, etc.]), and mutants (Mantru) to meet the return of\nthe starwandering humans.  Like Native American Indians stepping around\nthe bleached bones of Viking colonists to meet the arriving Pilgrims\n(ouch).\n\nAnother thread--now that you know Wolfe put a lot of thought into\nmaking nevermade stone age weapons, think you can figure them all out?\n(Mainly I'm thinking about those wands.  The twirling baton-launching\ncrossbow device seemed straightforward enough, and the wo-wo wand is\nkinda out there, but the mink stick still intrigues us unanimously,\nno?)\n\n=mantis="
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