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  "thread": {
    "id": 2918,
    "subject": "Dorp judges and \"The Waif\"",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2002-02-04T17:25:45+00:00",
    "last": "2002-02-04T17:25:45+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0202-69@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jerry Friedman",
        "address": "jerry_friedman at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-02-04T17:25:45+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Dorp judges and \"The Waif\"",
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "--- Adam Stephanides <adamsteph at earthlink.net> wrote:\non 2/1/02 4:08 PM, Thomas Bitterman at tom at bitterman.net wrote:"
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          "text": "..."
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          "text": "And when Silkhorn gives reasons for rebellion, he says nothing about\ntyranny.  First he explains it on the grounds of necessity for himself,\nand\nto keep Beroep and Aanvagen from being ruined; and because the judges\nare\ncorrupt. (181)  Later he tells Capsicum \"The judges had taken advantage\nof\ntheir [the people of Dorp's] good qualities, and so the judges had to\ngo; if\nI had not removed them, the people themselves would have within a few\nyears.\""
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          "text": "Isn't taking advantage of people's good qualities what the Flying People\ndo in \"The Waif\"?  Sort of the opposite of the inhumi.  But I'm just\nthrowing that out, because I don't understand \"The Waif\" (which is why I\ndidn't answer Dennis/Endy's query), and I probably don't understand lots\nof BotSS either."
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          "text": "Jerry Friedman"
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