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  "thread": {
    "id": 2218,
    "subject": "Little, Big: fairy blood",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2000-05-01T10:50:54+00:00",
    "last": "2000-05-01T10:50:54+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0947@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Adam Stephanides",
        "address": "adamsteph at earthlink.net"
      },
      "date": "2000-05-01T10:50:54+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Little, Big: fairy blood",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "alga wrote:\nHi Alex:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Me, actually.  (The second Alex is really Alex.)"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Could you explicate?  It's been a while since I last reread the book,\nbut I just looked at the genealogical chart, and I don't recall any of\nDaily Alice's ancestors being fairies."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Well, to pare it down to barest simplicity, Violet Bramble is either wholely a fairy or mostly fairy. Her child with John Drinkwater, August, before being turned into Grandfather Trout, impregnates most of the girls in the Five Towns, the Hills, Dales, Meadows, Woods, etc. etc. So there is a great deal of fairy blood since all the cousins (who don't necessarily know they are cousins) intermarry."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I remembered the part about August being everyone's progenitor. And,\nfrom a later post, you regard the single eyebrow as the sign of fairy\nblood.  I'm no expert on fairy lore, but going solely by LB itself, it\nseems to me that the single eyebrow might well be a sign of the ability\nto see fairies, rather than of being a fairy.  And there are other\nthings in LB which make me skeptical of Violet's being a fairy or\npart-fairy. For one thing, there is no explicit indication in LB (unlike\nin earlier lore) that fairies do or can mate with humans.  (Dr.\nBramble's lecture is hardly reliable information.)  And the fairies\nCrowley depicts don't seem the type to mate with humans.  Finally,\nViolet is just depicted as too human to be of the same species as the\nvery inhuman Mrs. Underhill."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Actually a very Christian notion.  The Gnostic idea, I think, is that\nonly those who understand the secret knowledge of their true nature will\nbe saved."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "The secret knowledge of true nature in LB is that of fairy blood. I would be willing to swear up and down that JC knew what he was doing here."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "But (assuming the Drinkwaters have fairy blood), it's not knowledge of\nhaving fairy blood that counts, it's the blood itself. George doesn't\nknow he has fairy blood, neither does Auberon, and Sylvie doesn't even\nknow she's a Drinkwater. It still sounds more like a parody of\nChristianity than Gnosticism to me."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Does [Eigenblick go in]? I had forgotten that, but of course he is an otherworldly creature too. Hawksquill goes in as a stork."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "And in some sense, Eigenblick goes in as a fox.\n\n--Adam"
        }
      ]
    }
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