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  "thread": {
    "id": 5258,
    "subject": "Eidolon or Aquastor?",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2008-12-03T12:02:27+00:00",
    "last": "2008-12-03T16:24:33+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<63FB9AC7E0AEC7459DBCC99DC44247CA01F6B011@BOSIDEXDB.Bankofscotland.ie>",
      "from": {
        "name": "O'Donnell, Tim BOSI",
        "address": "tim.o'donnell at bankofscotland.ie"
      },
      "date": "2008-12-03T12:02:27+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Eidolon or Aquastor?",
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          "text": "Hi Son of Witz,\n\nI don't think there is a strong difference between them at all.\n\nMantis came up with a useful (to me anyway) rule of thumb a while back.\n\n\"Wolfe uses (or seems to use) \"aquastor\" and \"eidolon\" interchangeably. \nHowever, at times in the past when I was trying to ferret out the different forms of \"ghosts\" involved (i.e., hair-splitting) \nI leaned on \"aquastor\" as being (1) machine generated (as opposed to biological mind generated), \n(2) having physical presence; \nleaving \"eidolons\" to be the (1) non-physical, beamed directly into the brain, seen by nobody else forms.\" \nhttp://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0009/0739.shtml\n\n\nTo be honest, I think the difference is akin to explaining the difference between a \"ghoul\" and a \"ghost\" to someone.\n(Nitpickers have at it, I haven't checked my OED so there could be a distinct difference between the two!)"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<10820.72.171.0.143.1228306993.squirrel@brunians.org>",
      "from": {
        "name": "brunians at brunians.org",
        "address": "brunians at brunians.org"
      },
      "date": "2008-12-03T12:23:13+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Eidolon or Aquastor?",
      "in_reply_to": "<63FB9AC7E0AEC7459DBCC99DC44247CA01F6B011@BOSIDEXDB.Bankofscotland.ie>",
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      "blocks": [
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "To be honest, I think the difference is akin to explaining the difference\nbetween a \"ghoul\" and a \"ghost\" to someone."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "A ghost is a remnant of a dead entity, normally a person.\n\nA ghoul is a creature that eats the bodies of the dead. It may or may not\nhave been a living person at some point.\n\nThat said, I agree with you that Wolfe is using eidolon and aquastor\ninterchangeably.\n\n\n\n\n."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<63FB9AC7E0AEC7459DBCC99DC44247CA01F6B016@BOSIDEXDB.Bankofscotland.ie>",
      "from": {
        "name": "O'Donnell, Tim BOSI",
        "address": "tim.o'donnell at bankofscotland.ie"
      },
      "date": "2008-12-03T16:24:33+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Eidolon or Aquastor?",
      "in_reply_to": "<10820.72.171.0.143.1228306993.squirrel@brunians.org>",
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        {
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          "text": "Hahaha, Brilliant!\n\nThanks Brunians!\n\nMan, I think Ghoul is going to be one my new favourite words."
        }
      ]
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