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  "thread": {
    "id": 3193,
    "subject": "godleaf?!",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2002-04-23T06:33:41+00:00",
    "last": "2002-04-23T06:33:41+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0204-762@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "maa32",
        "address": "maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu"
      },
      "date": "2002-04-23T06:33:41+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) godleaf?!",
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      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "This post exists to ask a question rather than to posit another \nunsubstantiated theory: I haven't read 5HC in a long time (and I've only read \nit once, a terrible sin I will rectify this summer). These Shadow children ... \nso this godleaf is something that they perhaps consumed to explain their weird \nproperties? I especially liked the idea of the fall of man as a separation \nfrom the Tree of Life which was posted by someone recently (was it you, Roy? a \nlot of posts lately).  Reconciliation with God as a return to that Tree ... I \nthink that makes a pretty neat redemption in light of some of the things I've \ntalked about ad nauseum. (fall of man: Adam eats fruit of tree; redemption of \nman: tree eats man to produce fruit (which could be a crucifixion on one \nlevel, I suppose))\n\nIs this godleaf from a tree? A consumption of the vegetable which illicits \nchanges in an animal/human? Or just a \"finding\" of the godleaf?  Just \nwondering if Wolfe is doing weird things with plants in 5HC as well.  If some \nitem found on the planets has changed humanity, then perhaps these shadow \ndudes could have been altered from that odd early wave of settlers from \ngondwanaland (or whatever)by coming into contact or consuming this substance.  \nI totally need to re-read the text, much like Towelie, \"I have no idea what's \ngoing on right now.\"\n\nHas anybody ever commented on how much Severian looks like a Buckaroo Bonzai \nlead Peter Weller (I think that's his name) for the cover art of Citadel of \nthe Autarch?\nBwa ha ha.\nMarc Aramini"
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