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  "thread": {
    "id": 4622,
    "subject": "Hierodules",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2006-05-26T10:48:48+00:00",
    "last": "2006-05-27T02:11:53+00:00"
  },
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    {
      "message_id": "<BAY103-F267542D03FA7E48B006D0CD79E0@phx.gbl>",
      "from": {
        "name": "b sharp",
        "address": "bsharporflat at hotmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2006-05-26T10:48:48+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Hierodules",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "I'm pretty sure the  ugly Hierodule masks of F, B and O are an insect, a \nlamprey (fish) and a human leper.  I think Famulimus is the leper.\n\nyep, earthly hierodules, uh praying mantises, have very triangular heads.  \nSo does Thecla (face anyway).  Perhaps Michael Andre-Driussi also?\n\nPraying Mantises are pretty scary looking up close but helpful to us because \nthey eat a bunch of nasty, harmful bugs.  Plus they pray!  Deliberate \nsymbolism by Wolfe?"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<1f7617370605261911w4ad7d3fdk5dd3046230c0026d@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes",
        "address": "danldo at gmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2006-05-27T02:11:53+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Hierodules",
      "in_reply_to": "<BAY103-F267542D03FA7E48B006D0CD79E0@phx.gbl>",
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "On 5/26/06, b sharp <bsharporflat at hotmail.com> wrote:\nI'm pretty sure the  ugly Hierodule masks of F, B and O are an insect,\na lamprey (fish) and a human leper.  I think Famulimus is the leper."
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          "text": "This is correct. And there were exceptionally beautiful human\nfaces -- to the point, as I recall, that they were no longer quite\nhuman -- underneath the second layer of masks. Severian, if I\nrecall correctly, remarks that they appear to him to be what the\nwalking statue in the garden of the House Absolute was based\non.\n\n--Dan'l"
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          "text": "I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.\n                        -- St Teresa of Avila\nhttp://www.livejournal.com/users/sturgeonslawyer"
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