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  "thread": {
    "id": 389,
    "subject": "Digest urth.v007.n014",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-03-01T21:19:13+00:00",
    "last": "1998-03-01T21:19:13+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0007-0576@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alice Turner",
        "address": "al at interport.net"
      },
      "date": "1998-03-01T21:19:13+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: Digest urth.v007.n014",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "I think the narrator is a dog, specifically a domestic dog who has\nfallen out of (or ejected from) the car his humans are riding in. The\nfall gave him amnesia, favored plot device of writers.  How can you tell\nhe's a dog?  He has the marks on his neck of a leash or collar; a\n\"birthmark\" that goes \"from one side of the hair on the back of my neck\nto the other.\"  He only comes up the shoulders of the Wiggikki, who are\nwolves (few dogs are as large as a wolf).  When he finally meets the\nproprietors of the Great Sleigh, they are angels.  What dog owner is not\nan angel to his dog?\n\nOf course, I'm not saying the narrator _is_ a dog literally, but in the\nsame sense that the Wiggikki are wolves, and so forth.  The robots obey\nhim because he is \"human,\" not literally, but of all the human-like\nanimals they encounter, he is the most human; more human than Mantru,\nwho is a-human or ex-human, mostly likely a homunculus (in the TBotNS\nsense). The narrator does exactly what you would expect a loyal dog to\ndo: find his masters again; though, being a dog, he's distractable on\nthe way. He eats the artificial food because it's what a dog raised on\nkibble would be used to (the moral dimension aside)."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "On second thought, viz, you have to deal with all that \"True Man\" stuff in\nthe underground kingdom. Hard to fit that in with your theory. What do you\nthink?\n\n-alga-"
        }
      ]
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