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  "archive": "urth",
  "thread": {
    "id": 3210,
    "subject": "tools and officer",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 3,
    "first": "2002-05-01T05:59:44+00:00",
    "last": "2002-05-02T22:10:14+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0205-836@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "maa32",
        "address": "maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu"
      },
      "date": "2002-05-01T05:59:44+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) tools and officer",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "text": "Say, I haven't been following the discussion of 5th Head too closely, but \ndoesn't anyone think that the officer reading the repot is an abo?  He makes \nthat women who services him open the package for him, and he seems reluctant \nto use tools (like a knife to open a package, if I remember correctly).  That \nis just a vague impression from reading it a few years ago.  I will have the \ntext in my hands again in about two weeks to re-read it. Those abos are \neverywhere.\nMarc Aramini"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0205-853@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jerry Friedman",
        "address": "jerry_friedman at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-05-02T21:54:24+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) tools and officer",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0205-836@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "--- maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu> wrote:\nSay, I haven't been following the discussion of 5th Head too closely,\nbut \ndoesn't anyone think that the officer reading the repot is an abo?  He\nmakes \nthat women who services him open the package for him, and he seems\nreluctant \nto use tools (like a knife to open a package, if I remember correctly). \nThat \nis just a vague impression from reading it a few years ago.  I will have\nthe \ntext in my hands again in about two weeks to re-read it. Those abos are \neverywhere."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Apparently!  The officer does have the male slave (a Gene Wolfe clone,\nright?) draw the officer's dagger and cut the ropes on the package.\nOn the other hand, later the officer draws his own dagger and cuts a\npage of V. R. T.'s notebook to compare the cut with the way the first\nthree pages have been removed.  The cut-out pages and the business\nwith the slave's drawing the dagger both mystify me.\n\nJerry Friedman"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "-- "
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0205-854@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes",
        "address": "ddanehy at siebel.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-05-02T22:10:14+00:00",
      "subject": "RE: (urth) tools and officer",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0205-853@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Jerry Friedman writes:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "The officer does have the male slave (a Gene Wolfe clone, right?) draw\nthe officer's dagger and cut the ropes on the package. On the other hand,\nlater the officer draws his own dagger and cuts a page of V. R. T.'s \nnotebook to compare the cut with the way the first three pages have been\nremoved.  The cut-out pages and the business with the slave's drawing the\ndagger both mystify me."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Assume that the officer is Annese.\n\nAssume that the Annese not only are clumsy with tools (like knives), but are\nclumsy in a particular way.\n\nThen cutting a page himself, and comparing it to how the pages already cut \nappear, may be a way for him to determine (to, at least, his own\nsatisfaction)\nwhether they were cut by a human or by an abo..."
        }
      ]
    }
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