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  "thread": {
    "id": 5771,
    "subject": "Urth Digest, Vol 75, Issue 7",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2010-11-07T17:59:10+00:00",
    "last": "2010-11-07T20:47:54+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<AANLkTimMW5puW50i1rWeFkR8NGPUK8C23abk23cGq3eh@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Andrew Mason",
        "address": "andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com"
      },
      "date": "2010-11-07T17:59:10+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Urth Digest, Vol 75, Issue 7",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Entonio wrote:\n\nI must be missing something. Isn't it generally accepted that Severian\npaid several visits to that time period alone? He at least says he\nlikes to think some of the people who came to help him at the inn were\nhimself - or am I mixing things up?"
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        {
          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "Well, yes, he says he _likes_ to think that, so we can't be sure it's\ntrue. But grant that Severian made other trips to that time; it's\nstill unclear whether he did any conciliating on those trips. It's not\nas if when our Severian sees the other Severians at the inn they are\nall being feted as wonder-workers. Of course, it may be that they\nstarted working wonders after our Severian left. (If they had been\nworking wonders before he arrived, wouldn't someone have done\nsomething to stop it? And would the arrival of our Severian have\ncaused such a stir?)\n\nBear in mind, though, that they must have been considerably older than\nour Severian (since the Apu-Punchau episode, which takes many years,\nhappened in between) and that they would not have had the Claw. (I\nknow the Claw doesn't really matter. But people _thought_ it\nmattered.)"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<4CD7107A.9080707@gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "António Pedro Marques",
        "address": "entonio at gmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2010-11-07T20:47:54+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Urth Digest, Vol 75, Issue 7",
      "in_reply_to": "<AANLkTimMW5puW50i1rWeFkR8NGPUK8C23abk23cGq3eh@mail.gmail.com>",
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Andrew Mason wrote:\nEntonio wrote:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "I must be missing something. Isn't it generally accepted that Severian\npaid several visits to that time period alone? He at least says he\nlikes to think some of the people who came to help him at the inn were\nhimself - or am I mixing things up?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Well, yes, he says he _likes_ to think that, so we can't be sure it's\ntrue. But grant that Severian made other trips to that time; it's\nstill unclear whether he did any conciliating on those trips."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "My view regrding that is that he can't help conciliating, his powers are there."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "It's not\nas if when our Severian sees the other Severians at the inn they are\nall being feted as wonder-workers."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Knowing the episode, they might have opted to come in disguise and generally \nwalking unnoticed at that particular time and place."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Of course, it may be that they\nstarted working wonders after our Severian left. (If they had been\nworking wonders before he arrived, wouldn't someone have done\nsomething to stop it? And would the arrival of our Severian have\ncaused such a stir?)\n\nBear in mind, though, that they must have been considerably older than\nour Severian (since the Apu-Punchau episode, which takes many years,\nhappened in between) and that they would not have had the Claw. (I\nknow the Claw doesn't really matter. But people _thought_ it\nmattered.)"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Good point. It's unclear to me why people did think so."
        }
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