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  "thread": {
    "id": 443,
    "subject": "Jonas and Miles, my ideas",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "1998-03-26T02:32:18+00:00",
    "last": "1998-03-26T02:32:18+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0008-0664@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "C R Culver",
        "address": "crculver at aol.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-03-26T02:32:18+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Jonas and Miles, my ideas",
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      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "I've been thinking about Jonas and Miles lately. I came up with two ideas I\nthink are possible:\n\n1) Severian, after the adventure at the Castle of Baldanders, is basically\nfriendless (his imagined Thecla doesn't count). He wonders north lonely. He\ncomes up a soldier who has died. The soldier, let's call him pre-Miles, has\ndied after some unfortunate mishap. So, Severian puts the Claw in his mouth,\nand his subconscious despair and loneliness manifest themselves, the Claw\nrecreates the personality of Jonas in the soldier, who wakes up as Miles. It\nwasn't entirely successful, as Miles isn't much of a friend (barely talks, is\naloof), although Severian tries to make one of him. Could this idea work?\n\n2) Didn't someone say in _Citadel_ during the Ascia campaign that the\nHierodules were landing in the north? Perhaps the recently repaired Jonas came\nback with them, but got killed, and when Sev revived him, the personality of\nhe from whom Jonas got his biological parts was the one revived. Did not we\nsee from the flesh-eaters' talk that any cell in the body can contain the soul\nof the person (see also Master Ultan's speech in _Shadow_). This possibility\nis only valid if the person killed by the landing of Jonas' craft was a\nsoldier, or maybe not. I dunno.\n\nWhat do you think?\n\nChristopher R. Culver <crculver at aol.com>\nhttp://members.aol.com/crculver/index.html"
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