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  "thread": {
    "id": 2697,
    "subject": "Planaria",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2001-06-26T11:49:35+00:00",
    "last": "2001-06-26T11:49:35+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0030-0509@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan Parmenter",
        "address": "dan at lec.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-06-26T11:49:35+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Planaria",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "depth": 0,
          "text": "From: James Jordan <jbjordan4 at home.com>\n\nRe: the unreproducible Planaraian worm experiment:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "         Wolfe may have had these experiments a bit in mind, but he's \nmainly dealing with the Christian sacrament of Holy Communion, which links \nbelievers with Christ and through Him with the whole body of saints, dead \nand alive, as believers in a mystery eat the flesh and drink the blood of \ntheir Savior. There are also a whole slew of baptisms in the New Sun books, \nbeginning with young Severian's first death and resurrection. So actually, \nin context of the book, these are the main miracles."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "I think it's both, and I think that the fact that it's both is pure\nWolfe.  I was similarly shot down by Dan'l when I offered a\nphysicalist/AI treatment of the abosrption of Maytera Rose into\nMaytera Marble, Dan'l preferring a straightforward \"soul residing in\ninanimate objects\" reading.  Feh.  Wolfe's not just a Catholic, but\nhe's also an engineer/tech writer at heart, never forget it.  This is\nthe guy who wrote a story (\"Westwind\") about people talking to God on\nwalkie-talkies for goodness sake!  Maybe this is why some hard SF\npeople can't stand Wolfe.\n\nD"
        }
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