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  "thread": {
    "id": 5847,
    "subject": "Urth Digest, Vol 76, Issue 169",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2010-12-21T15:51:30+00:00",
    "last": "2010-12-21T15:51:30+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<AANLkTi=-fsbTKQSAAJV2KFJuKmD_jMv2FJXcLeUeceN1@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Andrew Mason",
        "address": "andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com"
      },
      "date": "2010-12-21T15:51:30+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Urth Digest, Vol 76, Issue 169",
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "James Wynn wrote:"
        },
        {
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Oh, yeah. Auk."
        },
        {
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          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I agree that Auk is very likely to be an embryo. He has exceptional\nabilities,  and the gods take an interest in him which can't obviously\nbe explained by his situation in life. I also suspect that Mint was\nhis surrogate mother. This explains the special interest she takes in\nhim, and the way he sometimes thinks of her as a mother, while not\nconflicting with the undoubted fact that she is a virgin. (She would\nhave to have been very young; but Mucor was very young when she gave\nbirth to the lynxes. We know she had some kind of traumatic experience\nbefore becoming a sibyl.) Of course, this leads to more puzzlement -\nthe two undoubted embryos we know of, Silk and Mucor, both had wealthy\nsponsors; who could Auk's sponsor be?\n\nRegarding the origin of the embryos, though, Crane says that Mucor's\nparents 'probably met in a petri dish', implying that they are the\nresult of in vitro fertilisation rather than clones. ('How would he\nknow?', you may ask. But if enough is known about the embryos that\npeople can find out what they were bred for, it's not impossible that\ntheir origin is known as well.)"
        },
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          "text": "Well, I don't *think* that Tartaros possessing him and making him do\nsomething is the even similar to Auk \"thinking more clearly\" OR\nreceiving a message from Tartaros."
        },
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          "text": "In the abstract, no. In context I don't think it's too much of a\nproblem. Tartaros _does_ tell him to let Hyacinth go - this is\nexplicit - and 'explains' this by saying that he has healed Auk's mind\nas much as possible.  I take it the point is that he can now tell Auk\nto let her go because, having recovered from his injury, he can work\nout what he ought to be doing. (Also Tartaros earlier said he was able\nto communicate with Auk because of his injury. I don't think it's\nexactly possession - he holds Auk's hand, for instance, which isn't at\nall like what Chenille experienced when possessed.)"
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