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  "thread": {
    "id": 2301,
    "subject": "arguing JC heroic duties",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2000-06-29T06:56:58+00:00",
    "last": "2000-06-29T06:56:58+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0029-0094@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Andre-Driussi",
        "address": "mantis at sirius.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-06-29T06:56:58+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) arguing JC heroic duties",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "David Duffy quote and wrote:\nBEASTS: a case might be made that many of the characters do not want to be"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Reynard can be seen as doing his duty as he sees it."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Eek, Reynard as the hero?  Even more horrifying than anything I saw. <g>\n(Not really, I mean I saw that: just that it seems like the grimmest\nreading. Judas, yes; a necessary-for-the-book Judas, certainly; but Judas\nas hero?  In truth \"Judas\" doesn't capture the Machievellian aspect of\nReynard at all: Machievelli as hero?)  Please remind be what duty Reynard\nis doing, besides his own reproduction: I can't see the manipulative masks\nfor the masks of manipulation."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "ENGINE SUMMER: Rush-as-we-know-him does not do his duty, rather, he is like"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Rush is offered a choice at the end of his narrative (which suddenly reminds\nme of the offer to Silk).  He knows what he is getting into.  Apropos of\nthe end, could his name mean Book (papyrus that speaks)?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Right, well which end of his narrative?  The human end (hi, let me make\nthis brain tape of you--it won't hurt at all) or the recorded end (did I\nreally know what I was agreeing to when I said yes)? [Where is my copy of\nES, anyway?]\n\nYes, definitely his name means book.  (I think it would be \"Rush That\nSpeaks\" = papyrus scroll = book).  There is also a weird link to Mount\nRushmore, with Rush's head in the Teddy Rooseveldt spot; but this is\nprobably just another artefact of my overactive reading.\n\nAnd yes, thanks for mentioning Silk, because that is what I was going to\nwrite in my previous post: that Silk is the closest thing to a JC-style\nhero that Wolfe has written.  Or so it has seemed to me."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "As for the sfnal rational, the stuff was brought back by an interstellar\nprobe.  Like you said before, mana from heaven."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "This always stuck in my a craw a little, but many substances are absorbed very\nwell by the lungs, including finely powdered glucose.  Using nebulizers,\npeople inhale 1-2 ml of fluid over 4-5 minutes, so I guess you could inhale\nas much as 50 calories an hour ;)"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "They probably just take an i-v drip in between chapters <g>.  (Shades of\nDelany's NOVA, come to think of it.)  But no, I myself wouldn't try to\nargue the rationale on this one.\n\n=mantis="
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