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  "thread": {
    "id": 354,
    "subject": "Environment Impacts",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "1998-02-06T15:36:00+00:00",
    "last": "1998-02-06T15:36:00+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0007-0527@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "m.driussi",
        "address": "m.driussi at genie.geis.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-02-06T15:36:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Environment Impacts",
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          "text": "Reply:  Item #6546311 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01#\n\nRe: the Library rats.  I took them as another example of creatures\nbeing shaped by their unusual environment, the most striking example\nbeing the Man Apes of the Saltus Mine.  The Man Apes are in an\nenvironment laced with mutagenic substances (radiation, toxic wastes,\netc.) and they never get to see the sun.  (Tabloid Layer of TBOTNS:\njust as UFO sightings are explained in the text as time travelling\nsaucer ships doing historical research, and \"how people mysteriously\nvanish and where they go\" is strongly hinted at with the timewarping\nBotanical Gardens of Nessus, if one needs more time for evolutionary\nmutations ala Man Apes one can just have them living on Earth right\nnow--Yetis, gnomes, Lovecraftian servitor races, etc.)\n\nThe Library rats are in an environment oozing with knowledge, some of\nit activated by touch.  They make their home within the laboratory\nmaze of the =only= library on the planet.\n\n(There were also some large talking moths in the Gardens of the House\nAbsolute [II, ch. 27]--but maybe they were only talking to each other\nas animals talk.)\n\n=mantis="
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