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  "thread": {
    "id": 3689,
    "subject": "Pike's sacrifice",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2002-12-18T16:35:54+00:00",
    "last": "2002-12-18T16:35:54+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0212-2468@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "James Wynn",
        "address": "crushtv at hotpop.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-12-18T16:35:54+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Pike's sacrifice",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Zx wrote:\n\"- dead Patera Pike mumbling prayers as he slit the throat of\na speckled rabbit he himself had bought.\"\n\nThis seems to me to represent a vison or perception of a\nmoment in Pa. Pike's past life, rather than the appearences\nof his shade elsewhere in the book."
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          "text": "Blattid responds:\nCorrect. A few pages later, when he explains to Blood that\nhe is the help sent in response to Pa. Pike's prayers, Silk\nbegins by saying that he saw Pike praying for help to save\nthe manteion. This would be the experience of seeing that,\nof seeing what is clearly a moment in the \"temporal\" past,\nrelative to the \"temporal\" moment in which Silk's timeline\nis interrupted by the \"eternal\" experience of enlightenment.\n\nCrush interjects:\nBut what may not have been pointed out is that \"rabbits\" are appropriate\nsacrifices to Kypris.\nThis suggests \"when\" Pike's sacrifice occurred (shortly after his rendezvous\nwith Rose), which explains why he would appeal to Kypris.\n\n\"But, Crush, doesn't the text tell us Pike appealed to the Outsider?\"\nOf course it does. And we are also told that Kypris cannot help becoming \"in\na sense\" the Outsider."
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