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  "thread": {
    "id": 3609,
    "subject": "Venus of D'oh!",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2002-11-25T22:15:54+00:00",
    "last": "2002-11-25T22:15:54+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0211-2241@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Andre-Driussi",
        "address": "mantis at siriusfiction.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-11-25T22:15:54+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Venus of D'oh!",
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          "text": "I wrote:\nBack up again.  We have often wondered who Charlie's father is, and we have\nposited Julius Smart among others.  Yet these things go together: a man of\na certain generation older than Weer (Smart) meets an armless woman (or\ncreates her ala Pygmalion: don't forget, Pygmalion carved a statue of\nAphrodite, and that goddess brought it to life; the resulting woman, some\ngive her name as Galatea, bore him a son!) and finds her very attractive.\n\nWould he then poison his wife?  Or was she a victim of his attempts to\nremake her into something more like Venus?\n\nIn any event, the possibility remains that Charlie could be Smart's son,\nand as such, the true heir to the Smart empire.\n\nBut mainly: Janet is Venus, and Charlie is Cupid. In one common tradition,\nCupid is the son of Aphrodite by Zeus or Ares or Hermes.  The best match\nfor Smart would be Hermes, the god of the alchemists as well as liars,\ntricksters, and thieves."
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          "text": "No, no -- I meant \"Charlie as son of Tilly.\"  Smart is more like a\nPrometheus, a fellow who stole the fire; Smart is the usurper of the throne\nfor which any child of Tilly would be the rightful heir.\n\nAnd the dog boy would make a hairy heir.\n\n=mantis="
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