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  "thread": {
    "id": 5301,
    "subject": "(no subject)",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2009-01-07T19:09:30+00:00",
    "last": "2009-01-07T20:55:36+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<1bf4dd40901071109g476f9991tc10dedf305aca828@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dave Tallman",
        "address": "davetallman at msn.com"
      },
      "date": "2009-01-07T19:09:30+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) (no subject)",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Roy C. Lackey wrote:\nIf real-time phone service between planets light-years apart were even\npossible, the government would know and use it. Clearly it is not."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "The government doesn't know everything. I quote:\n At last John said, \"There are only two ways to communicate with Woldercan.\"\nThe president muttered, \"That we know of.\"\n\nBesides,what could either Reis or Chase have been doing on Woldercan\nduring the week"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "or so that Cassie was left to cool her heels in the islands that would have\nbenefited either man's immediate agenda?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I can imagine several possibilites:\n1) Reis - Consult with the beings who taught him how to walk unseen and to\nmake gold. What else could they teach him? Love potions, maybe? Cassie\nbecome much more loving after smelling that mysterious spicy cologne.\n2) Chase - Find his natural father. Pick up some of the magical skills Reis\nhas learned. Get dirt on the existing ambassador so he can be replaced.\n3) Either - use the time-shifting nature of trips to Woldercan to go\nbackward or forward in time."
        }
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    },
    {
      "message_id": "<002f01c9710a$4fe3a360$e2ce4a0c@rclackey>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Roy C. Lackey",
        "address": "rclackey at stic.net"
      },
      "date": "2009-01-07T20:55:36+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) AEG: Gideon",
      "in_reply_to": "<1bf4dd40901071109g476f9991tc10dedf305aca828@mail.gmail.com>",
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      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Dave Tallman quoted and wrote:\nIf real-time phone service between planets light-years apart were even\npossible, the government would know and use it. Clearly it is not."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "The government doesn't know everything. I quote:\n At last John said, \"There are only two ways to communicate with\nWoldercan.\"\nThe president muttered, \"That we know of.\""
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Cell phones aren't magical. They require support technologies that the\ngovernment could not help but be aware of, and Reis was being monitored. If\npackaged communication, such as eithermail, was problematic, and even if\nlag-time were not a problem (which it would be, since even a hopper trip\nmust be done in stages), then real-time phone conversation would be\nimpossible."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Besides,what could either Reis or Chase have been doing on Woldercan\nduring the week\nor so that Cassie was left to cool her heels in the islands that would\nhave\nbenefited either man's immediate agenda?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "I can imagine several possibilites:\n1) Reis - Consult with the beings who taught him how to walk unseen and to\nmake gold. What else could they teach him? Love potions, maybe? Cassie\nbecome much more loving after smelling that mysterious spicy cologne.\n2) Chase - Find his natural father. Pick up some of the magical skills\nReis\nhas learned. Get dirt on the existing ambassador so he can be replaced."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Chase didn't need to dig for dirt. An ambassador serves at the president's\npleasure. Gid's ambassadorship was partial payment for services rendered. As\nthe president said, \"We want you to find out how he does it an' make him\nstop doin' it. That's what it comes down to.\" (20) Gid did it.\n\nGid knew from the start how Reis was able to breach government security.\nReis \"walks unseen\", as the note to Cassie on the back of the photo showed.\nWhat I am suggesting is that Gid set Reis up. He recruited Cassie as bait,\nand Reis took the bait. When Reis acted to make Cassie his island queen, and\nsince he had already pissed off the Squid God by killing off a thousand of\nthe god's international recruits on the islands, he knew he had to act to\ninsure his queen's safety. The island natives were too afraid of the Squid\nGod to be of any help. So he hired Gid as a consultant, knowing Gid had the\near of the president and the backing of the U.S. government. Gid told Reis\nhow to set the bait for the Squid God and got the president to send in the\nNavy. The island natives killed Reis to placate the Squid God. Problem\nsolved. The presiden't commision was satisfied. Gid got his reward, the\nambassadorship to Woldercan he said he wanted (222), where he could learn\nhow to make gold, just as Reis had done.\n\n-Roy"
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