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  "thread": {
    "id": 4528,
    "subject": "TWK: More Mag",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2005-12-21T06:22:29+00:00",
    "last": "2006-01-07T06:31:54+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<000801c605f6$edfe5680$433ec6d8@rclackey.stic.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Roy C. Lackey",
        "address": "rclackey at stic.net"
      },
      "date": "2005-12-21T06:22:29+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) TWK: More Mag",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Last Feb. 25, I made a speculative post about Mag, and Art's mysterious\nconnections to her. Here is a tidbit I overlooked, but which only serves to\nmuddy the waters further. It comes just after the death of Gilling, when\nAble was treating Toug's injuries in Thiazi's quarters. Thiazi had just come\nin, and Able was introducing the two slave women present, Etela and her\nmother, to him. To the best of my knowledge and belief, this scene in\nThiazi's room was the first occasion in the 900 page story where Able met\neither female. He says to Thiazi, \"And this woman is her [Etela's] mother. I\nthink I know her name, but it would be better if she were to introduce\nherself.\" The woman (Lynnet) ignored him. (W, 249)\n\nThree pages later, Able asked Toug what her name was. Not even Toug knew it;\nEtela had to supply the name. What's going on here? Why did Able/Art think\nhe knew the name of a woman he hadn't even met before? Able's first mention\nof her was page 247.\n\n\"There was moonlight in the eyes of the strange woman Etela called Mama; I\nwondered what those eyes would be like when the moon was full, and found\nmyself hoping I would never see them by moonlight.\"\n\nAble and Lynnet then go on to enter the Room of Lost Love.\n\n-Roy"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<Pine.LNX.4.58.0601071608510.31809@orpheus.qimr.edu.au>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David Duffy",
        "address": "david.duffy at qimr.edu.au"
      },
      "date": "2006-01-07T06:31:54+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Wolfe and Van Vogt",
      "in_reply_to": "<000801c605f6$edfe5680$433ec6d8@rclackey.stic.net>",
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          "text": "I was rereading _The World of Null A_ recently (it wasn't as bad as I was\nexpecting ;)) and noticed a couple of interesting parallels.  One is the\nsetting on Venus, which I had completely forgotten: it is a green world\ncovered by enormous trees (mile high?).  Secondly, the amnesiac hero gets\nthere by dying on earth and awakening there in a new body, and returns to\nEarth by spaceship.  As usual, overall there are more differences than\nsimilarities between Short Sun and _Null A_.\n\nA third resemblance is Gosseyn's method of immortality, cf _The Fifth\nHead_.\n\nDavid Duffy."
        }
      ]
    }
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