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  "thread": {
    "id": 436,
    "subject": "More on Jonas",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "1998-03-24T11:52:06+00:00",
    "last": "1998-03-24T11:52:06+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0008-0655@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Tony Ellis",
        "address": "tony.ellis at futurenet.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "1998-03-24T11:52:06+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) More on Jonas",
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          "text": "                                                                      \n24/03/98\n                                                                      11:31\n More on Jonas\n\nThe passage in Conciliator (Chapter X) where Jonas apparently\ntells Severian something of his origins is interesting. He says\nthat his father was a craftsman, talks of having two parents, \nand of his home being a seacoast town.\n\nSeverian, recording this, is aware that Jonas wasn't quite\nsaying what he thought he was. The question is, just\nhow economic with the truth was he being?\n\nPresumably his \"craftsman\" father was the engineer who built\nhim. But two parents? Who was the other? Another \nengineer perhaps, or maybe this is an oblique reference to\nthe machinery with which he was made. Another possibility\nis that two android parents can build a child, as they do\nin the Long Sun books.\n\nMy point is, Jonas could be sticking very closely to the truth,\nin which case we could assume that the southern seacost home\nstory is also as good as true. It's another argument against\nJonas being\\speaking Asian, basically. He could have \npicked up such a language later in life, of course, but I still\nhave faith in my computer-speak theory.\n\nAny thoughts? "
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