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  "thread": {
    "id": 6442,
    "subject": "Urth Digest, Vol 109, Issue 24",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2013-09-27T20:54:36+00:00",
    "last": "2013-09-27T21:30:48+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<CAM3O41LFyF0Lk5G_rnM4-KftFMW_WcTvbqRL1N5Bwk_AtCuxMQ@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Andrew Mason",
        "address": "andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com"
      },
      "date": "2013-09-27T20:54:36+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Urth Digest, Vol 109, Issue 24",
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          "text": "Lee Berman wrote:\nLarry Miller: Anybody have any theories on any characters in Long Sun\nbeing an Inhumi (\nbesides Quetzal obviously)?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "I lean toward Patera Remora. He is undeniably weird, but I find his name\nto be the biggest\nhint.  One of the defining characteristics of Inhumi is that they get\naround by being\nstowaways, hitching rides without permission. And that is the primary\ncharacteristic of the\nremora fish.\n\nThere is a difficult to define but undeniable centrality to the fish theme\nacross the whole\nSun series. Also, an augur's clothing would seem to be an ideal way to\ndisguise one's\nInhumi identity."
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          "text": "I think Wolfe says somewhere that although there are other inhumi on the\nWhorl, they are few, which means it's quite likely Quetzal is the only one\nin Viron. I have a couple of specific worries about Remora: one is that at\nMainframe he meets his mother - and though there is a sense in which an\ninhumu might have a human mother, through his source, it would complicate\nmatters. Another is that Mucor says of Remora 'he talks to the man who\nisn't there' - by this, it seems, meaning Quetzal. So for her Quetzal\n'isn't there' - there is no real person where he is - yet she seems to\nrecognise Remora himself as a person.\n\nI do think there may be more than meets the eye to Remora, but\nunfortunately my theory is too large to fit into this margin. (I was\nplanning to make it one of my Short Sun notes series. I will post it\nshortly.)"
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    },
    {
      "message_id": "<03373BE3-617D-4076-A50D-3301CF8FB1D4@gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "António Pedro Marques",
        "address": "entonio at gmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2013-09-27T21:30:48+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Urth Digest, Vol 109, Issue 24",
      "in_reply_to": "<CAM3O41LFyF0Lk5G_rnM4-KftFMW_WcTvbqRL1N5Bwk_AtCuxMQ@mail.gmail.com>",
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          "text": "No dia 27/09/2013, ?s 21:54, Andrew Mason <andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com> escreveu:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Lee Berman wrote:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Larry Miller: Anybody have any theories on any characters in Long Sun being an Inhumi (\nbesides Quetzal obviously)?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "I lean toward Patera Remora. He is undeniably weird, but I find his name to be the biggest\nhint.  One of the defining characteristics of Inhumi is that they get around by being\nstowaways, hitching rides without permission. And that is the primary characteristic of the\nremora fish.\n\nThere is a difficult to define but undeniable centrality to the fish theme across the whole\nSun series. Also, an augur's clothing would seem to be an ideal way to disguise one's\nInhumi identity.\n\nI think Wolfe says somewhere that although there are other inhumi on the Whorl, they are few, which means it's quite likely Quetzal is the only one in Viron. I have a couple of specific worries about Remora: one is that at Mainframe he meets his mother - and though there is a sense in which an inhumu might have a human mother, through his source, it would complicate matters. Another is that Mucor says of Remora 'he talks to the man who isn't there' - by this, it seems, meaning Quetzal. So for her Quetzal 'isn't there' - there is no real person where he is - yet she seems to recognise Remora himself as a person. \n\nI do think there may be more than meets the eye to Remora, but unfortunately my theory is too large to fit into this margin. (I was planning to make it one of my Short Sun notes series. I will post it shortly.) "
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          "text": "From the first sentence I saw it in, I assumed Remora was a reference to the man's modus vivendi, always following - but getting there all the same -, never leading - and thence not really a threat only by himself. Unlike the inhumi, remorae take nothing from their hosts."
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