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  "thread": {
    "id": 4086,
    "subject": "Wolfe; it hurts!",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 3,
    "first": "2003-07-11T04:35:15+00:00",
    "last": "2003-07-11T07:07:03+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0307-3649@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Seth Lombardi",
        "address": "sethlombardi at hotmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2003-07-11T04:35:15+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Wolfe; it hurts!",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Two questions that might be sort of remedial:\n\nFirst, if I'm not mistaken, Severian makes reference to having _thousands_ \nof personalities to draw from after becoming Autarch. Now, seeing as how my \nLexicon Urthus tells me there are have been far less than a thousand known \nAutarchs, where does this legion come from? Are they somehow the result of \nThecla's previous meals, and I just missed it?\n\nSecond, and I KNOW this has been debated before so just feel free to ignore \nit if it's redundant, what the HECK is going on with Merryn at the end of \nthe Book of the Short Sun? Even ignoring the reference to her being other \nthan human, why does Severian seemingly deny knowledge of a sister when \nconfronted with the fact that he has the name of a twin in BOTNS, but \nacknowledges to SilkHorn that she is his sister at the end of BOSS? Could it \nbe that the lil' Severian that SilkHorn meets is actually one of the \nalternate unsuccessful versions? Or perhaps a further refinement?\n*****************************\nSeth Lombardi\nsethlombardi at hotmail.com\nsethopopotropolis: http://pages.prodigy.net/nlom/blogg.html\nAIM: melombardi\n\"Two faces are alike; neither is funny by itself, but side by side their \nlikeness makes us laugh\" -Pascal"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0307-3650@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Andrew Bollen",
        "address": "abollen at internode.on.net"
      },
      "date": "2003-07-11T05:10:55+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Wolfe; it hurts!",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0307-3649@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
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          "text": "Seth writes:"
        },
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Second, and I KNOW this has been debated before so just feel free to\nignore\nit if it's redundant, what the HECK is going on with Merryn at the end of\nthe Book of the Short Sun? Even ignoring the reference to her being other\nthan human, why does Severian seemingly deny knowledge of a sister when\nconfronted with the fact that he has the name of a twin in BOTNS, but\nacknowledges to SilkHorn that she is his sister at the end of BOSS?"
        },
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          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "Unless I've missed it, I don't think Sev makes this claim. It's Merryn who\nsays: \"He's my brother ... We're brothers & sisters, we witches & torturers\"\n(Ch 13). I don't think there's any claim of real kinship in that, just some\nsmart-ass irony.\n\nWhat's the reference to her being other than human?"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0307-3656@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "matthew.malthouse",
        "address": "matthew.malthouse at guardian.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "2003-07-11T07:07:03+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Wolfe; it hurts!",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0307-3650@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "On 11/07/2003 05:35:15 Seth Lombardi wrote:\nTwo questions that might be sort of remedial:\n\nFirst, if I'm not mistaken, Severian makes reference to having \n_thousands_\nof personalities to draw from after becoming Autarch. Now, seeing as how \nmy\nLexicon Urthus tells me there are have been far less than a thousand \nknown\nAutarchs, where does this legion come from? "
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Assumes you believe LU.   :-)\n\n\nMatthew"
        }
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    }
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