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  "thread": {
    "id": 3698,
    "subject": "hut drama",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2002-12-20T19:20:28+00:00",
    "last": "2002-12-20T19:20:28+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0212-2495@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "maa32",
        "address": "maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu"
      },
      "date": "2002-12-20T19:20:28+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) hut drama",
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      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "There are some interesting comments about the mating of inhumu which might be \nfruitful.  In the beginning of Chapter 19 of RTTW, Juganu speaks of how the \ninhumu must mate on Green because its water has the necessary life in it \nnecessary for their  incubation.  Silk identifies it as \"a drama\", in which \n\"they are the audience as well as the actors.\"  The inhumu act out certain \nthings to simulate reality.\n\nThe neighbors made Horn act out the drama of Severian in cleaning out the \nsewers with a Black Blade, a claw-like light, and a watery redemption.  They \ncould have done it themselves, but he had to act out the role of savior.  By \ncleaning out a sewer.  Why does Horn simulate the savior/destroyer of Urth?  \nWhy do the inhumu simulate men's breeding practices to breed?  Does ontogeny \nrecapitulate phylogeny here?  Does drama recaptiulate \"myth\" (which is \nessentially indistinguishable from history in the various Sun books)?  And \nwhat does that say about the ancient development of the inhumu and their city?\nMarc Aramini"
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