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  "thread": {
    "id": 3235,
    "subject": "Shapeshifting (was Re: (urth) Shadow Children in the",
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    "first": "2002-05-08T13:53:26+00:00",
    "last": "2002-05-08T13:53:26+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0205-923@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Adam Stephanides",
        "address": "adamsteph at earthlink.net"
      },
      "date": "2002-05-08T13:53:26+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: Shapeshifting (was Re: (urth) Shadow Children in the",
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          "text": "on 5/5/02 11:46 AM, Alice K. Turner at aturner6 at nyc.rr.com wrote:\nWithout following the argument very closely, let me suggest that with the\nAnnese, GW references the fairy tradition--he is not alone among good sf\nwriters to do so."
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          "text": "True; in fact, he does so explicitly, in Marsch's notes (157, Ace pb).  But\nthat doesn't necessarily mean that the Annese can actually shapeshift.  It\ncould indicate that, just as the \"paleolithic, Caucasoid Pygmies\" on Earth\n(157) had been mythologized into shapeshifters, the same mythologization had\ntaken place with the Annese.\n\n--Adam "
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