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  "thread": {
    "id": 211,
    "subject": "Hero as Werewolf",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1997-09-18T15:50:59+00:00",
    "last": "1997-09-18T15:50:59+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0004-0314@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "John Bishop",
        "address": "jbishop at ch.hp.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-09-18T15:50:59+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Hero as Werewolf",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "  I just re-read this story.  I'm having trouble\n  understanding it.\n\n  First off, the surface we see can't be true; no\n  post-human \"masters\" would tolerate the number of\n  deaths implied (20 to 30 masters killed per year\n  per old-style human): we see three humans and hear\n  of others, so the year toll is on the order of\n  hundreds to thousands in the city.  The masters\n  are at least as crime-free as we are at our best,\n  so this is a _major_ emergency for them.  Consider\n  that 100 murders a year made New York City a\n  by-word for danger.\n\n  Secondly, there's that odd post-death capability\n  to speak and move that the masters have.\n\n  Suggestion: the city is a hive, of some kind of\n  social insects.  The new masters are from a new\n  queen, or a new kind of insect.  The surviving\n  children of the old queen live by consuming the\n  new children.  This accounts for both odd features.\n\n  Or am I just way too literal?  The girl's inability\n  to talk is a puzzle the above doesn't address.\n\n     -John"
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