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  "thread": {
    "id": 4701,
    "subject": "'Pian",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2006-08-28T19:05:58+00:00",
    "last": "2006-08-28T19:05:58+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<9c6b022b0608281205k2abd4543o247a615292f73cf@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Ranjit Bhatnagar",
        "address": "ranjit at moonmilk.com"
      },
      "date": "2006-08-28T19:05:58+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) 'Pian",
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          "text": "I worry that I've missed some obvious counter-argument, but it seems\nto me that Appian and Paeon are one and the same.\n\nRoy quoted:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "[...] \"Paeon, who\ntrained me, who was honey-steward fifty years gone by. I knew what he was in\ntruth, for I had met him before.\" [...] (CITADEL, chapter XXV)"
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          "text": "\"I knew what he was\" -- he was the Autarch, playing honey-steward as\nSeverian's predecessor played at whoremaster.\n\nTony:"
        },
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          "text": "And finally we have the mysterious Paeon, whom Roy also mentions. You\nreason that the penultimate Autarch may have been 5-12 years old when\nPaeon trained him, 50 years ago, and I agree. But since we know Appian\nhad been on the throne *at least* 12 years by then, doesn't that support\nmy theory rather than yours?"
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          "text": "... or MY theory :)\n\n\"Paeon\" sounds like \"Appian.\"  It could be his honey-stewarding\nnickname, or perhaps even Severian's mishearing of the Old Autarch's\nwords.\n\n- ranjit"
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