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  "thread": {
    "id": 3821,
    "subject": "DOORS: Tina as Tinkerbell",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2003-01-29T00:13:35+00:00",
    "last": "2003-01-29T00:13:35+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0301-2858@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Andre-Driussi",
        "address": "mantis at siriusfiction.com"
      },
      "date": "2003-01-29T00:13:35+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) DOORS: Tina as Tinkerbell",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Spectacled Bear quoted me and wrote:\nThat is one of the funnier and puzzling bits (I could've sworn Roy Lackey\nwas complaining about Tina's Daddy knowledge as being a weird\nbending/blending of the worlds where there should be no blending, but\nlooking over the messages I can't seem to find it)."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Roy said: \"Given the necessarily limited amount of memory available in\na mechanical doll, I don't think it would be expended on a person the\nchild could never know.\" - which I would agree with."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "True, but I was referring to messages before that one (and that one still\ndoesn't capture what I thought I remembered). My fault.  (And now to argue:\nif the doll is a socialization/indoctrination tool, then it seems to me\nthat it better have some kind of positive message about daddies in there\namong its canned lectures!  Still, having writ that, she really does seem\nto be talking about E-daddies rather than O-daddies.)\n\nMainly right now I just want to say what the subject line says.  I could\npush it further, claim that noun \"tinker,\" aside from being related to\ncopper (iirc), is now more commonly known as a verb \"to mess about with\nmachines; workshop invention\" but that begins to obscure the point.\n\nShe even has a little green dress.  (Well yes, green does tie back into\ncopper, but still.)  Sure, she can talk where Tink is virtually mute . . .\nand Tink can fly . . . and Tink gets insanely jealous . . . well, the\ndifferences start to pile up.\n\n=mantis="
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