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  "thread": {
    "id": 2078,
    "subject": "A Less Confident Infrequent Answer",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2000-01-19T09:00:18+00:00",
    "last": "2000-01-19T09:00:18+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0705@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David Lebling",
        "address": "dlebling at shore.net"
      },
      "date": "2000-01-19T09:00:18+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) A Less Confident Infrequent Answer",
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "From: \"Talarican\" <exultnttalarican at mindspring.com>\nII: 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\nhumorously\nretorts to Severian that Baldanders isn't ready to die yet. Sev replies\nthat\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?! )"
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          "text": "Could this be a reference to _Terminus Est_?  Is Talos saying \"If you're\ngoing to give him life, why do you have your sword with you?\"  Another\npossibility, if he really is referring to Jonas, is \"You brought death upon\nJonas, in spite of your intentions, and you will do the same to Baldanders.\"\nThis alternative doesn't seem to me to fit as well.\n\n    Dave Lebling\n    (aka vizcacha)"
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