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  "thread": {
    "id": 2457,
    "subject": "Marsch and VRT Redux",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2000-11-11T01:12:39+00:00",
    "last": "2000-11-11T01:12:39+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0030-0112@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Robert Borski",
        "address": "rborski at charter.net"
      },
      "date": "2000-11-11T01:12:39+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: Marsch and VRT Redux",
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          "text": "Dan'l Blattid having further amended his original post thusly:\n\n<In other words: There _is_ an Earthborn anthropologist; that is\nbeyond any reasonable doubt.  What I am suggesting is that his\n_name_ is not John V. Marsch. VRT kills him, and takes \"John V.\nMarsch\" as his name when he \"returns\" to civilization.\n\n<As evidence, I've mentioned the abosity of the name and the detail\nof the passport; I'll mention also that the \"V\" in \"John V. Marsch\"\nstrikes me as likely equal to the \"V\" in VRT.>\n\nTerran anthropologist John Marsch has allegedly splashed down at Roncevaux\non Sainte Anne. This argues for a document trail which the authorities could\neasily follow up on. If there's no record that one John Marsch, late of\nEarth and academia, has indeed arrived in-country via the proper channels,\nit's never mentioned--as it almost certainly would be by the various\nindividuals who investigate his case prior to the junior officer.\n\nAs for \"'A Story,'\" as I've argued before, it's probably been written during\nVRT's incarceration on Saint Croix (Victor makes reference to his prison\nwritings), and the intromitted \"V\" may be his own personal idea--a further\nsubsuming of the Marsch personna by appending his own first initial as John\nMarsch's middle initial. If he did a clumsy job with the amending, this\nmight refer to the botched passport, especially if Victor has handwritten\nthe forged V in himself.\n\nAlso: do not forget that the detail about 'John' being the name of every abo\nboy is provided by VRT himself, writing as John Marsch. It may not be true,\nor more likely may be yet another attempt, either consciously or\nsubconsciously, at linking his identity with the Earthborn anthropologist.\n\nRobert Borski"
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