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  "thread": {
    "id": 3622,
    "subject": "Quetzal On Urth? (on Nutria's post)",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2002-11-27T20:10:20+00:00",
    "last": "2002-11-27T20:10:20+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<urth-v0211-2284@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "James Wynn",
        "address": "crushtv at hotpop.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-11-27T20:10:20+00:00",
      "subject": "RE: (urth) Quetzal On Urth? (on Nutria's post)",
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          "text": "Nutria rejoinds:\n         [Crush's interpretation of Quetzal's allegory] makes sense, but I\ndon't think its the only way to read it. You're right I think that serpents\nare all over these books, and deliberately so. But surely Scylla is a\nserpent also? The title of the chapter is \"The Slaves of Scylla.\" Is that\nwhat Quetzal is? In that case, going with your allegory, it was Scylla who\nhelped or had Typhon build the whorl. It is\nScylla's tree. In the chapter, Quetzal's own tree is of recent planting.\n\nI'm thinking that the notion that that the inhumi are slaves of Scylla may\nopen some new avenues of investigation....\n         Try this: Scylla wanted the Whorl to deposit its people on Blue,\nwhere she ruled. Quetzal has his own plan, to get them to his own tree:\nGreen. On Blue, inhumi are slaves of Scylla, like everyone else. A return to\nGreen, to Quetzal's tree, is \"the highroad to freedom.\" Freedom from\nwhat? From being a slave of Scylla?\n\nI'm just playing with possibilities here.\n\n\nCrush responds:\nIt's all quite moot with Charles' recent post, but still nicely done. Still,\nyour suggestion has two problems:\n\n(1) Remora is one of the \"slaves of Scylla\" in this chapter and he's very\nun-inhumi-like.\n\n(2) Scylla is not a serpent in mythology, etymology, association, nor on the\nWhorl. Echidna is the serpentine goddess.\n\n-- Crush"
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