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  "thread": {
    "id": 3325,
    "subject": "host bodies for the gods",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2002-06-18T02:33:47+00:00",
    "last": "2002-06-18T02:33:47+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0206-1265@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Straight",
        "address": "straight at email.unc.edu"
      },
      "date": "2002-06-18T02:33:47+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) host bodies for the gods",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Josh Geller wrote:\nAh! And Mint would be the body planned for what's-her-name, the war\ngoddess."
        },
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          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Sphigx?  I see her in an embryo enhanced for physical strength (Chenille,\nmaybe), if not a godling, but, are the godlings bios or chems?  I'd think\na nuclear-powered, moisture-eating, super-strong, near-immortal chem like\nSand would be the ideal host if there weren't some other inherent\ndrawbacks.  Maybe they'd miss animal pleasures like sex and eating.  Or\nmaybe Councilor Lemur's fate speaks to the problem of bios trying to be\nchems.\n\nI don't think Mint is an enhanced embryo.  Rather, posession gave her an\nextra boost of bravery, charisma, and leadership skills (Horn quotes Silk\nas attributing Mint's \"warlike nature\" to the influence of Kypris)."
        },
        {
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "And Mucor the spooky one."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I think that's probably right -- although I wonder how much of Mucor's\nspookiness comes from Blood not having the technology  to do the embryo\nright and/or treating her more like an animal than a person.\n\n\n-Rostrum"
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