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  "thread": {
    "id": 5736,
    "subject": "Spirit travelers and food",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2010-09-06T04:29:58+00:00",
    "last": "2010-09-06T04:29:58+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<003a01cb4d7c$2d5dda40$36d24a0c@rclackey>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Roy C. Lackey",
        "address": "rclackey at stic.net"
      },
      "date": "2010-09-06T04:29:58+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Spirit travelers and food",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "In connection with the theory that Hyacinth is in fact a spirit/dream\ntraveling inhuma, Fava, the issue has been raised over whether Hy actually\nconsumed food, as I have contended, or if she only pretended to eat. This is\nwhat Silkhorn had to write about the issue of dream travelers and eating,\nwhen recounting one of his spirit journeys to Urth.\n\n\"When the torturer's apprentice and I went to Jahlee's cell, there was an\nunhealthy-looking young woman [Merryn] with her, so pale and gaunt I feared\nthat Jahlee had been feeding until I recalled that on the Red Sun Whorl\nJahlee could eat (and could not eat) as I did -- that the differences\nbetween our digestive systems had been erased, so to speak, since neither of\nus had any.\" (RTTW, 266)\n\nSince spirit travelers, whether human or inhumi, can eat, there would have\nbeen no need for a spirit traveling Hy/Fava to have faked hunger or the act\nof eating. She could have eaten, or not eaten, as little or as much as she\ncared to without consequence, without fretting that her thighs were getting\nfat. A vain human bimbo who had used her body since she had been a teenager\nto advance herself in the world did not have that luxury.\n\nJuganu wanted to try human food while he was spirit traveling on Urth, and\npresumably had breakfast with the captain of the _Samru_ (ibid, 356-57). I\npresume this inspired him to eat some soup back on Blue (361) while in his\nusual inhumu disguise as a little old man with a bald head.\n\nLest anyone suppose that Hy was in fact a real-world inhuma who faked eating\nas Quetzal did, remember that when Quetzal died on that lander his body\nreverted to its natural reptilian form, revealing his decades-long charade.\nThe body on the bier on the first page of RTTW was that of a dead\n\"middle-aged woman\", not that of a dead reptilian inhuma.\n\n-Roy"
        }
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