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  "thread": {
    "id": 3178,
    "subject": "5HC: Is the Wolfe line necessarily doomed to failure?",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2002-04-19T22:50:18+00:00",
    "last": "2002-04-19T22:50:18+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0204-714@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes",
        "address": "ddanehy at siebel.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-04-19T22:50:18+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) 5HC: Is the Wolfe line necessarily doomed to failure?",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "I'm not sure what this means, but it appears that Number Five does\nsomething no previous Gene Wolfe has done. In the conversation in\nwhich he discoveres the nature of Mr. Million, this happens (Ace \ned'n, p45):\n\n\t[Mr. Million] paused agian, and for an instant his\n\tface dissolved into myriad sparkling dots, swirling\n\tlike dust motes in a sunbeam. \"I am sorry. For once\n\tyou wish to listen but I do not wish to lecture. I \n\twas told, a long time ago, just before the operation,\n\tthat my simulation - this - would be capable of \n\temotion in certain circumstances. Until today I had\n\talways thought they lied.\"\n\nOkay, I freely admit that I'm not sure what this is about. The\npreceding conversation is all about what Mr. Million is. Is it\npossible that no preceding generation has _asked_? Or...\n\nAt any rate, it appears that _something_ has happened here that did \nnot happen with the previous GW clones. Does this imply that the \nGWs can evolve after all? (After all, the real GW believes in some \n\"heretical\" ideas about inheriting acquired characteristics.)"
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