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  "thread": {
    "id": 5808,
    "subject": "dog ape",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2010-12-07T22:24:42+00:00",
    "last": "2010-12-07T22:24:42+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<AANLkTimsY2n512-UAmWo_35trP2X6Xk0==hnFrqT+tNn@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Andrew Mason",
        "address": "andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com"
      },
      "date": "2010-12-07T22:24:42+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) dog ape",
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Lee Berman wrote:"
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          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Andrew Mason: It isn't just that it can make human vocalisations; it clearly means what it says\n(as does Oreb). Both seem to have an intelligence which is sub-human but very real."
        },
        {
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "I don't remember the cynocephalus making any noise. It just seems to look in on Severian then\nleave. There are revelations about Oreb at the end of RttWhorl which do involve the limits on\nits intelligence, I think"
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          "text": "Sorry, I was too condensed;  no, the cynocephalus doesn't speak. Jane\nsaid a dog-headed ape was more surprising than an ape that can speak\n(the catachrest), and that's what I was commenting on."
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