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  "thread": {
    "id": 5418,
    "subject": "Loose ends",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2009-04-29T13:31:12+00:00",
    "last": "2009-04-29T13:31:12+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<49F856A0.3000805@verizon.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David Stockhoff",
        "address": "dstockhoff at verizon.net"
      },
      "date": "2009-04-29T13:31:12+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Loose ends",
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          "text": "interestingly, my first reaction to your relation of that scene is that there is indeed some explanation. The nature of it may be hidden, but it exists. And Severian is just pretending to be ignorant of it.\n\nFor example, the guy may recognize him as an exultant, and hate him for that. Or he recognizes him for an executioner, whether he is in fuligin or not. Or the guy hates him because Thrax is a small, shitty town and Severian is a stranger.\n\nAny of these is sufficient and tells us more about Severian than about the tales. Further, I'd guess that Wolfe is in fact reminding us to look for those explanations. Severian is basically saying \"A certain type of coincidence does not occur in narratives,\" though it may very well occur on nature."
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          "text": "----------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nMessage: 1\nDate: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:19:22 -0700\nFrom: Robin Dunn <bigbadgerjohnny at gmail.com>\nSubject: Re: (urth) Urth Digest, Vol 56, Issue 58\nTo: urth at lists.urth.net\nMessage-ID:\n\t<ccc836b60904281419n3c566f73yfcda4556ed74ba29 at mail.gmail.com>\nContent-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1\n\nFascinating discussion of the moral parts the Neighbors play vis a vis\nhuman settlement on Blue--\n\nOne thought I had is that it can be counterproductive to some extent\nto expect that every creature we find in Wolfe fits into a detailed\nbestiary that he had planned.\n\nSeverian narrates at some point in Thrax that he rarely reads tales\nwhere strangers are encountered, no dialogue results, but some\nnameless hatred is still there between men.  As I recall Severian has\nthis thought when he passes some guy that glares at him, without any\nexplanation.\n\nPart of what I always liked about Wolfe is that he's willing to have\nso many loose ends, and he's willing to introduce incredibly complex\nideas and characters almost as side-gags, before moving on to\nsomething completely different.\n\nI guess what I'm saying is, sometimes the crazy shit goes down, and we\nstay in the dark  ;) "
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