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  "thread": {
    "id": 4100,
    "subject": "Malrubius's ghost and Paeon's",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2003-07-19T06:29:16+00:00",
    "last": "2003-07-19T06:29:16+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0307-3697@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan Rabin",
        "address": "wolfe-lists at danrabin.com"
      },
      "date": "2003-07-19T06:29:16+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Malrubius's ghost and Paeon's",
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          "text": "Any explanation of the appearances of Malrubius to Severian should \nalso account for the appearances of Paeon, the honey-steward who \ntrained the Autarch when the latter was a servant in the House \nAbsolute.\n\nThe old Autarch says in _Citadel_, ch. 25, that this Paeon-image \nappeared to him while Severian was with the false Thecla in the House \nAzure to tell him that Severian would be his successor:\n\n\"You remember everything, and so you must recall the night you came \nto my House Azure.  That night someone else came to me.  I was a \nservant once, in the House Absolute. . . . That is why they hate me. \nAs they will hate you, for what you once were.  Paeon, who trained \nme, who was honey-steward fifty years gone by.  I knew what he was in \ntruth, for I had met him before.  He told me you were the one . . . \nthe next.  I did not think it would be quite so soon. . . .\"\n\nThis seems to me to accord with the view that eidolons in the form of \ntrusted mentors from an Autarch's youth are sent to counsel them.\n\n   -- Dan Rabin"
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