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  "thread": {
    "id": 3329,
    "subject": "Homeric Astronauts, Not",
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    "first": "2002-07-02T00:25:51+00:00",
    "last": "2002-07-02T00:25:51+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0207-1290@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jeff Wilson",
        "address": "jwilson at io.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-07-02T00:25:51+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Homeric Astronauts, Not",
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          "text": "I meant to present this during the most recent 5HC debate.\n\nI think that _The Odyssey's_ appearance in the first part is the key to\nunlocking not the entire book but at least the mystery of the abos'\norigins. The account in \"'A Story'\" is mythologized history and even\nhistoricalized mythology in the same way that the Greeks dramatized the\nTrojan War and the Romans presented some of the usual mythic war of the\ngods motifs as historical stuggles of the legendary founders of Rome.\n\nThe diminutive Shadow Children and the full statured abos are two\nbranches of descent from an original group that arrived at the twin\nplanets. This group lost or cut contact with Earth, which proceeded to\ndevelop more distant colonies that were more reliable investments in\nthat ships or at least information came back. The forgotten colonists\nlargely descend into savagery while some imbibe the native vegetation\nand change themselves with it, like some kind of pseudo-evolutional\ncatalyst, gaining small bodies that are easier to keep fed on the scarce\ngame and forage, and possibly some kind of biofeedback control, that\nwould account for the age-changing and shape-changing abilities. The\ntelepathy might be a real ability granted by the plant, but might just\nas well be an artifact of the need to explain why the Frenchmen came\nwhen they did.  \n\nI'll try to post some textev in a day or few."
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          "text": "Jeff Wilson\nHow Am I Posting? 1-800-555-6789\n\"If your SecOp can see you, so can the enemy.\" -Cpt Law\n\n\n-- "
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