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  "thread": {
    "id": 5079,
    "subject": "Re;  Sev's common lineage",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2008-07-01T17:22:31+00:00",
    "last": "2008-07-01T17:22:31+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<1bf4dd40807011022y221aea03sb8f18a132ebc67e1@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dave Tallman",
        "address": "davetallman at msn.com"
      },
      "date": "2008-07-01T17:22:31+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re;  Sev's common lineage",
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          "text": "b sharp wrote:\nYes,  having a man in his 80's father someone in their 20's-30's is\npossible but a stretch. I was\nonly hinting that my ideas might help:  if Fechin is Dorcas' husband\ninstead of father and the\nportrait of Rudesind is a self-portrait, then it rolls everyone's age back\nabout 15 years and the\nages fit nicely. That might mess up other aspects of your scenario though,\nnot sure."
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          "text": "Rudesind said \"An artist--a real one--came by where we lived. My mother,\nbeing so proud of me, showed him some of the things I'd done. It was\nFechin.\" How do you parse this last sentence? Maybe \"It [the work I'd done]\nwas [in the style I chose to call] Fechin.\"? It seems quite forced.\n\nI can't see the old husband switching back and forth between obsessively\nlooking for Dorcas and being a chatty museum attendent. It diminishes him as\na tragic figure.\n\n Rudesind seems to have the role of directing Sev and getting him back on\ntrack when he's lost. He lets slip that Father Inire told him to say certain\nthings, which I take to be repeats of conversations in previous iterations.\nSay other changes in the timeline have caused Sev's visit to the library to\nslip by a day. WIthout help, he will wander around for hours and return\nempty-handed. Father Inire directs Rudesind to show up at the right time and\ngive Sev a hand, also instructing him to have the same sort of conversation\nas happened the first time around. Another time he says \"There's always an\nexplanation\" for why he is where he is (but the actual explanation is that\nhe's there to direct Sev).\n\nIs Dorcas' husband the same sort of actor? Is his grief a performance\ndesigned to push Sev along? I hope not."
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