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  "thread": {
    "id": 3291,
    "subject": "Bluvian blood bank",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2002-05-31T18:04:59+00:00",
    "last": "2002-05-31T20:14:48+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0205-1155@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Andre-Driussi",
        "address": "mantis at siriusfiction.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-05-31T18:04:59+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Bluvian blood bank",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "So we posit a technocratic solution, a human-to-inhumi blood bank.  Foster\ndependence, or codify the biological to nullify the unpleasant while\naccepting the unchangeable.  Somehow the inhumi will work off their debt,\nsweat for their, er, bread, performing air-courier services and\nnon-strength onerous labor, like, oh I dunno, childcare. ;)\n\nAnd a cadre of vampire police, to deter any feeding outside of the blood\nbank, even between consenting adults. :)\n\nScreening prospective blood donors: saints are always in hot demand\n(although as rare as . . . well, as saints), and so are utilitarian\npragmatists.  Criminals are probably forbidden.  Gothic teens?  A gray area\n:), but one that probably does not exist on Blue where vampires are\nundeniably real and frontier-life is too busy to support large scale art\ndecadence.\n\n=mantis=\n\n\nSirius Fiction\nbooklets on Gene Wolfe, John Crowley\n31 copies of \"Snake's-hands\" until OP!\nhttp://www.siriusfiction.com/"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0205-1158@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jerry Friedman",
        "address": "jerry_friedman at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-05-31T20:14:48+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Bluvian blood bank",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0205-1155@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
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          "text": "--- Michael Andre-Driussi <mantis at siriusfiction.com> wrote:\nSo we posit a technocratic solution, a human-to-inhumi blood bank."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I don't see any need for technology or a bank, which is probably\nwell beyond the capabilities of Blue."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Foster\ndependence, or codify the biological to nullify the unpleasant while\naccepting the unchangeable.  Somehow the inhumi will work off their\ndebt,\nsweat for their, er, bread, performing air-courier services and\nnon-strength onerous labor, like, oh I dunno, childcare. ;)"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Gosh, the first thing I should have thought of!"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "And a cadre of vampire police, to deter any feeding outside of the blood\nbank, even between consenting adults. :)"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Already in existence (though Bluvians seem to be surprisingly\ncareless at times), except for the consenting-adults part.  But\ncentral control of anything, especially something that needs only two\nfangs and a wrist, is a long way off in Blue's future.  Maybe in some\nof the more tyranically ruled individual towns you could make some\nkind of attempt."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Screening prospective blood donors: saints are always in hot demand\n(although as rare as . . . well, as saints), and so are utilitarian\npragmatists.  Criminals are probably forbidden."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "As are people who satirize suggestions on mailing lists.  :-)"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Gothic teens?  A gray area\n:), but one that probably does not exist on Blue where vampires are\nundeniably real and frontier-life is too busy to support large scale art\ndecadence."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "On the other hand, the set-up could encourage immigration of Goths\nfrom Nessus, which must have them.  Once we get those mirrors working.\n\nJerry Friedman"
        }
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