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    "id": 2075,
    "subject": "Can it be?! It is! Another Batch of Infrequently Asked Questions",
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    "first": "2000-01-17T23:21:57+00:00",
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      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0699@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Talarican",
        "address": "exultnttalarican at mindspring.com"
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      "date": "2000-01-17T23:21:57+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Can it be?! It is! Another Batch of Infrequently Asked Questions",
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          "text": "II: XXVI When Baldanders and Talos prepare to go their separate way from\nSeverian, Dorcas, and the abandoned Jolenta, Sev argues with Dr. Talos to\nallow him a short time alone to attempt to heal Baldanders. Talos humorously\nretorts to Severian that Baldanders isn't ready to die yet. Sev replies that\nit is life, not death, he offers. Talos' sarcastic reply: \"Where's your\nfriend?\". (- as in- I don't see your life-giving counterpart anywhere\naround?! )\n\nAt no point has Jonas, long since departed to Mirrorland, been mentioned.\nBut later, Severian tells Dorcas that Talos was asking about Jonas.\n\nIs Wolfe signalling us that Jonas is somehow to be considered \"life\" to\nSeverian's \"Death\"? (Not Talos, as Talos probably wasn't intentionally\nreferring to Jonas; indeed, he probably had forgotten the inquisitive\nstranger at the Piteous Gate. Not Severian, who connects this remark to\nJonas only by failing to comprehend the doctor's sarcastic wit as such.)  If\nso, what is the point?\n\nV:XXXVII What's up with the _Alcyone_'s cook and her silence (except the\none \"please\")? She looks at  Declan \"with a significance [Severian] did not\nunderstand\" after he announces that they will speak to the magistrate on Sev\n's behalf, and \"meantime do what we can in other ways\". What else did Declan\nintend to do (aborted in any case by Sev's summons to Typhon) and what was\nthe significance of the cook and her glances?\n\nI:XIII When Master Palaemon starts to explain to the newly disgraced\nSeverian the terms of his exile, he mentions \"_Twice_ before members of the\nguild have been dispatched to outlying towns, though whether those were such\ncases as this the chronicles do not say.\" (Emph. mine) Well of COURSE the\nchronicles do not say, Master, the point of all this is to sweep this\nscandal under the rug! Don't want an Inquisitor getting interested in\nmatters mentioned in the chronicles, do we?\nAnd what a neat evasion on Palaemon's part. I suspect he knows all too well\nthe circumstances of at least one of those two previous cases, right? But he\nsaid the chronicles do not say, not that he doesn't know!\nWhat happened in the _other_ case of a journeyman being sent forth from the\nMatachin Tower? Was he anyone we ever heard of?\n\nIII:XXXIII At Castle Baldanders, when Famulimus and Barbatus set Sev\nstraight regarding their lifespan, Baldanders interjects with \"These things\nlive only a score of years, like dogs\". His tone \"told [Sev] more than is\nwritten here, for each word fell like a stone dropped down some deep\n cistern\". Aside from the contempt obvious in B's choice of words, what did\nhis tone convey to Severian?"
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