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  "thread": {
    "id": 558,
    "subject": "The Gate incident",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-05-04T15:50:39+00:00",
    "last": "1998-05-04T15:50:39+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0010-0083@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "sph1635",
        "address": "sph1635 at utsph.sph.uth.tmc.edu"
      },
      "date": "1998-05-04T15:50:39+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) The Gate incident",
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          "text": "\tI have always thought that, since the roads are still closed to the\npopulace, the soldiers are enforcing this law by preventing people from\ngetting to them. Assuming that Severian's dream in Saltus is a valid\nrecollection of the events that happened at the gate, the soldiers were not\nattacking any creature, but rather attacking the people exiting the gate\nand scattering them out. My reasoning behind this is that why patrol all of\nthe roads, all of the time, when you could stop the traffic at it's source.\n\tI also find it interesting that Wolfe uses the same theme (of perfecting\none's self through changes made to another, or later, version of the\npresent self) of \"The Fifth Head of Cerberus\" in TBotNS. If this was true\nthen does Severian, more precisely Severian2, go back and make changes to\nhimself and/or events in his earlier life? After all, if Severian1 attained\nthe New Sun status and still went back and made life easier for\n,essentially, himself (or Sev2, if you prefer), then Sev2 can and will do\nthe same.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tXury"
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