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  "thread": {
    "id": 4433,
    "subject": "powers of Erebus and Abaia (was Re: cthulhu mythos, BotNS)",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 3,
    "first": "2005-06-03T09:44:00+00:00",
    "last": "2005-06-07T19:52:09+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<10506031643.AA01346@slack.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David DiGiacomo",
        "address": "david at slack.com"
      },
      "date": "2005-06-03T09:44:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) powers of Erebus and Abaia (was Re: cthulhu mythos, BotNS)",
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          "text": "What exactly are Erebus and Abaia's \"powers\"?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "They resurrect Severian when he drowns in the Gyoll, and they seem to be\nimmortal.  Those are pretty good powers!  It's interesting that Severian\nshares them."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<f5238c30506031148366ca8ed@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Maru Dubshinki",
        "address": "marudubshinki at gmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2005-06-03T11:48:38+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) powers of Erebus and Abaia (was Re: cthulhu mythos, BotNS)",
      "in_reply_to": "<10506031643.AA01346@slack.com>",
      "reply_link": "header",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "On 6/3/05, David DiGiacomo <david at slack.com> wrote:\nWhat exactly are Erebus and Abaia's \"powers\"?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "They resurrect Severian when he drowns in the Gyoll, and they seem to be\nimmortal.  Those are pretty good powers!  It's interesting that Severian\nshares them."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "pace Frazer, much magic is 'contagious'.\n\nBut I think the 'shared' powers are more likely from the New Sun-\nthat's just what UotNS seemed to me to be about.\n\n~Maru"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<20050608025206.86228.qmail@web31904.mail.mud.yahoo.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Sarah Dorrance-Minch",
        "address": "isobelwren at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "2005-06-07T19:52:09+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) powers of Erebus and Abaia (was Re: cthulhu mythos, BotNS)",
      "in_reply_to": "<10506031643.AA01346@slack.com>",
      "reply_link": "header",
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "--- David DiGiacomo <david at slack.com> wrote:\nWhat exactly are Erebus and Abaia's \"powers\"?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "They resurrect Severian when he drowns in the Gyoll,\nand they seem to be\nimmortal.  Those are pretty good powers!  It's\ninteresting that Severian\nshares them."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "And what a dubious gift it is, to attract, well,\nzombies. As if the \"fan club\" of masochists and thrill\nseekers weren't awkward enough. Sometimes you just\nhave to feel sorry for him.\n\n(Not to be facetious; sometimes I really did feel\nsorry for Severian, because he got his heart broken\nbadly a few times too many, but his I guess you could\ncall it habit of accidentally resurrecting people was\nrather amusing, in a way...)\n\n\n\nMidori/Sarah\n\nAh, love couldst thou and I conspire/ To grasp this sorry scheme of things entire/ Would we not break it all to bits, and then/ Remold it nearer to the heart's desire - Omar Khayyam\n\nReach me a gentian, give me a torch\nlet me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of this flower\ndown the darker and darker stairs, where blue is darkened on blueness.\n - D.H. Lawrence, \"Bavarian Gentians\""
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