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  "thread": {
    "id": 4287,
    "subject": "Gilling's killer (was Re: The Wizard - questions -- answers\n\t(spoiler))",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 3,
    "first": "2005-01-03T22:45:29+00:00",
    "last": "2005-01-04T01:13:18+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<10501040645.AA20484@slack.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David DiGiacomo",
        "address": "david at slack.com"
      },
      "date": "2005-01-03T22:45:29+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Gilling's killer (was Re: The Wizard - questions -- answers\n\t(spoiler))",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "From: \"Russell Wodell\" <wrustle at telus.net>\n\nWhat would be Sir Garvaon's motive for killing Gilling? (Rhyme \nunintentional) And why would Wolfe conceal this for so long?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Jealousy.  Garvaon loved Idnn, and was obviously a more worthy suitor than\neither the monstrous Gilling or the cowardly Svon.\n\nIt wasn't concealed for very long, as Wolfe's puzzles go."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "For this and other reasons, I am fairly certain that Iddn is the murderer. "
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "When Able says that the killer cannot be punished, Garvaon is dead, but\nIdnn is still alive."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "She agreed to marry Gilling to achieve power, which she maintains with her \narmy of giantesses, but killed him because sexual congress would mean her \ndeath either in coitus or in giving birth to a giant, as Wolfe makes \ngruesomely explicit."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I wondered about that, since I don't remember another mention of the\nmothers of the Mice having difficult births.\n\nOf course, I don't understand why the human women wouldn't take simple\nprecautions to avoid pregnancy.  Based on Wolfe's peculiarly graphic\ndescriptions, the giants wouldn't notice or care."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<E1ClkfJ-0006MA-3z@oceanus.uk.clara.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Andy Robertson",
        "address": "andywrobertson at clara.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "2005-01-04T01:07:49+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Giants' blood",
      "in_reply_to": "<10501040645.AA20484@slack.com>",
      "reply_link": "header",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Any thoughts on why the blood of the Angrborn is full of parasites?   Aside \nfrom just making them seeem extra vile?"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<000701c4f23d$9b2dbf90$26416596@crunchynut>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Andrew Bollen",
        "address": "abollen at internode.on.net"
      },
      "date": "2005-01-04T01:13:18+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Giants' blood",
      "in_reply_to": "<E1ClkfJ-0006MA-3z@oceanus.uk.clara.net>",
      "reply_link": "header",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Andy Robertson wrote:\nAny thoughts on why the blood of the Angrborn is full of parasites? \nAside from just making them seeem extra vile?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "No, but maybe it's just an image Wolfe liked & recycled. The giant in ummm \nthat story about dwarves killing a giant in the errrr recent collection \n(retarded with names, sorry) had macro-things living in his blood also. "
        }
      ]
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