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  "thread": {
    "id": 5427,
    "subject": "multi-limbs",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2009-05-04T12:18:52+00:00",
    "last": "2009-05-04T12:18:52+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<COL109-W58E6EE3210F13E6DCB06B9D7680@phx.gbl>",
      "from": {
        "name": "b sharp",
        "address": "bsharporflat at hotmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2009-05-04T12:18:52+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) multi-limbs",
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          "text": "FWIW, my impression of the message of multi-limbs on Blue's creatures is the opposite\nthat some others get. Having four limbs is not a universal ideal or baseline (as our arthropod\ncousins show); it is just an evolutionary by-product of the basic earth vertebrate pattern.\n \nSo rather than seeing multi-limbs as an alteration, I see them as a way that Wolfe marks\ncertain creatures on Blue as natives; others are are alien invaders. This could be a\nclear message that Blue is not Earth or Urth or Ushas.\n \nAlso, I suppose it has been mentioned before but I just re-noticed Wolfe's description of \nInhumi as not being good with tools.  Add this to their parasitic and mimicking nature and\nI think the connection to Shadow Children becomes quite powerful. This might make Fifth Head\nof Cerberus a very fruitful place for understanding Inhumi origins and how they think and feel\nas they assume a new identity. \n\n-bsharp"
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