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  "thread": {
    "id": 6588,
    "subject": "Doctor of death island quick comment",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2014-07-31T07:19:08+00:00",
    "last": "2014-07-31T07:19:08+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<CAF1072wE31tLO_8TKOezpJop52bPztQ4eom_cAgEpDqcZBwnkQ@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Marc Aramini",
        "address": "marcaramini at gmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2014-07-31T07:19:08+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Doctor of death island quick comment",
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          "text": "Perhaps a year and a half ago I promised I would get to \"the doctor of\ndeath island\" in a few weeks ... And I am finally getting to it, probably\nstarting and hopefully finishing the write up in the next day or two.\n\nI can't find the post, but someone asked if the consensus was whether or\nnot Alvard is killed at the end.  Rather than having to read my whole write\nup, which is coming soon, I will throw this direct answer out here a year\nand a half late.\n\nThe eight fingered dr, Margotte, survives unnaturally long - he is somehow\ndeath, though he shouldn't have lived long enough to get the immortality\ntreatment. He is always at the prison when the white sheet comes, and his\nhyperthyroid eyes are the eyes of Alvard's partner Barry as he cast him out\nthe window (probably for two reasons).  margotte said he snoozed during the\nday but was always on duty when someone died in the prison, and later he\nshows up when Alvard is released in that final scene, saying he was\ncryogenically frozen.  He is there as death for Alvard as Jessie kills him,\nher jealousy reborn. My final write up will be more thorough, as always. I\nfelt bad for so poorly estimating how long the 70s fiction would take to\nget through."
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