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  "thread": {
    "id": 5756,
    "subject": "Baldanders and Typhon",
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    "first": "2010-09-26T19:57:22+00:00",
    "last": "2010-09-26T19:57:22+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<AANLkTinoknvTi6RfBouJwQD-PHXQL_60N_=SVHwF8bbe@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Andrew Mason",
        "address": "andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com"
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      "date": "2010-09-26T19:57:22+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Baldanders and Typhon",
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          "text": "Regarding the comparison of Baldanders and Typhon: Baldanders strikes\nme very much as someone who is trying, by science, to transcend the\nhuman, and so someone who has _made himself_ a monster; it would blunt\nthe point of this if he were of monstrous origin. I take it,\ntherefore, that 'Baldanders' is an assumed name, and that if he was\nborn in the Commonwealth, he originally had a saint's name. (Or\nperhaps he was born in Ascia, and his real name is something like\nDevoted to the Interests of the Populace.)\n\nWe don't know enough about Typhon, I think, to say if his case is\nsimilar, but I don't think we can rule it out. Might there be a\nparallel between his adopting a monstrous name, and his wife and\nchildren's adopting monstrous names when they became the gods of the\nWhorl? (In which connection, it's worth noticing that 'Cilinia' is a\nsaint's name, and its bearer should therefore, by the normal rules, be\nhuman.)"
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