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  "thread": {
    "id": 6310,
    "subject": "More PEACE",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2012-11-24T00:22:22+00:00",
    "last": "2012-11-24T00:22:22+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<CAFNUQcosTkUk690iWfryNxsmgwdHtZJjFjpZHr4V=h=aWYa49Q@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Andrew Bollen",
        "address": "thalassocrat12 at gmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2012-11-24T00:22:22+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) More PEACE",
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          "text": "If the troll in Weer's walled-garden dream is indeed linked to gnome-prince\nPeacock, then its interesting to think about why it has \"fallen from his\nlittle pedestal\".  Maybe there's a story concerning the cave he, Olivia and\nWeer visit: perhaps Peacock salted the cave with the skull and\nwall-markings, to set-up a \"discovery\" of a paleo-Indian site - an academic\ncareer-maker for him?\n\nLittle hints: he & Olivia chatting about Altamira, I think the first major\nSpanish paleolithic site discovered, and his speaking of paleo-Indians. The\ngiant ground-sloth tooth he supposedly discovered in the area, and his lack\nof a satisfactory answer to Weer's question about why a grass-eater would\ninhabit that stony, hilly region - perhaps the sloth tooth was another\nsalting, setting up the main discovery: paleo-Indians hunting mega-fauna\netc. Peacock, having discovered the cave on his earlier trip, would surely\nnot have waited until returning with Olivia and Weer to explore it (unless,\nfor example, he wanted witnesses to his \"discovery\")?\n\nAnd then Gold's analysis of the Venus de Milo as a certain modern forgery -\nquestioning how it could have lain undiscovered in an easily-accessible\ncave for hundreds of years. Peacock's \"discovery\" is at least a little more\nplausible. Thematically, Peacock as forger of the distant past fits well:\nhe, Gold, the ladies faking up an Indian treaty ...\n\nI suggest that Olivia quickly cottoned on to his plan, and derailed it -\nduring that little interval while they talk together in the cave in the\nabsence of Weer. He seems that most likely of the four suitors to win\nOlivia, in terms of his personal attributes - \"He had been young, slender,\nand handsome; and most important of all he had been of that intelelctual\nand almost pedantic cast of mind for which my aunt had hungered all her\nlife\".  Perhaps being revealed as a fraudster - falling from his pedestal -\nwas one reason why things never went further for him.\n\nAnd I would guess that it provides a better motivation than jealousy - for\nwhich there is absolutely no hint in the text that I can see - for why he\nmay have killed her, if you believe he was the one who ran her down. (Which\nI don't -  Weer is a better candidate for that, hitting her accidentally in\nthe car he certainly possessed at the time; but I don't really believe that\neither.)"
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