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  "thread": {
    "id": 3589,
    "subject": "A Wooden Leg Named Smith",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2002-11-18T20:29:26+00:00",
    "last": "2002-11-18T20:29:26+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0211-2168@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes",
        "address": "ddanehy at siebel.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-11-18T20:29:26+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) A Wooden Leg Named Smith",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Roy quoting me:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 3,
          "text": "Perhaps the Claw (or Severian) cannot heal artificial persons,\nbut only natural persons ...,<<"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "... What I was addressing, \nhowever, was the contention that the Claw worked by reaching \nback in time to a point before the pending problem. If the \nClaw's power was a function of time, why should the presence \nof prosthetics present a problem? Would it not work for a man \nwith a wooden leg who was wounded woefully by a weapon?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Per se I do not think it would represent a problem (though I\nsuspect that if it was the wooden leg that was woefully wounded\nthe Claw would either fail or make it take root). \n\nBut in the cases of Jonas and Jolenta we don't have \"the presence \nof prosthetics\" -- Jonas actually came into existence as, and \nJolenta has become, in a different way, an _entirely_ artificial \nperson, and I suspect that the Claw fails/refuses to work with \nsuch."
        }
      ]
    }
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