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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/304",
    "note": "Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it.  Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.",
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  "archive": "urth",
  "thread": {
    "id": 304,
    "subject": "Undines",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-01-27T09:27:15+00:00",
    "last": "1998-01-27T09:27:15+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0006-0449@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alice Turner",
        "address": "al at interport.net"
      },
      "date": "1998-01-27T09:27:15+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Undines",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Xury,"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "       I cannot help but to wonder that if, supposing, Severian had his\nfate set up from the beginning, a life predestined by whomever (an earlier\nSeverian or such) and the Forces of Entropy were determined to prevent this\ncatalyst from bringing the New Sun, then why did the undine save him as a\nchild? She saved him so he could gain the Phoenix Throne, but they must\nknow\nhe would bring the New Sun also, thus bringing their own destruction."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Apart from larger questions of free will v. predestination----the undines\nsurvived the New Sun splendidly, and are seen cavorting in the flood waves.\nPractically the last act Severian does in the series is to make a\nsentimental sacrifice to Juturna.\n\n-alga-"
        }
      ]
    }
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