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  "thread": {
    "id": 6798,
    "subject": "Sorcerer's House writeup done at last.",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 3,
    "first": "2018-06-02T02:07:41+00:00",
    "last": "2018-06-04T01:44:31+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<CAF1072z6dtBtJWrbMzVYn1GkKNd--cHuzA9qtpfDJ8vtn9CG6g@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Marc Aramini",
        "address": "marcaramini at gmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2018-06-02T02:07:41+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth)  Sorcerer's House writeup done at last.",
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          "text": "This was tough. Late Wolfe is way trickier than I would like him to be for\nmy peace of mind. I suggest readers who want a head start on this and have\nnot stayed up to date on my posts look up the Lamia of Corinth and\nApollonius, as well as the Kikimora and the stories of Knecht Ruprecht and\nZwarte Piet, though I include all the pertinent information eventually. The\nLamia of Corinth has the ability to generate the illusion of a mansion and\nservants from nothing, is ambiguously gendered (like the figure on the\ngolden coin from Corinth in the text), is identified by a terrible stench,\nand has terrible eyes which she can remove (see the eyes of Lupine and the\nvampire butler Nicholas and the stench which accompanies them.) In addition\n... ... ... she drinks the blood of children. So does Nicholas the butler.\nHer illusions are never pierced in this text, because she strangles\nAmbrosius (as Goldwurm, of course!) and throws him in the river (In the\nhistorical biography, Apollonius pierces though her illusions by\nidentifying here.) Guess what never appears in the text of the novel? You\nguessed it - the name Lamia. Why you do this to me, Gene?\nhttps://pastebin.com/B7yGz57Q"
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    {
      "message_id": "<60aae68e-f954-9c44-002f-4bf4b536bdea@casema.nl>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Ab de Vos",
        "address": "foxyab at casema.nl"
      },
      "date": "2018-06-02T08:07:25+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Sorcerer's House writeup done at last.",
      "in_reply_to": "<CAF1072z6dtBtJWrbMzVYn1GkKNd--cHuzA9qtpfDJ8vtn9CG6g@mail.gmail.com>",
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          "text": "Just being lame I suppose.\n\n\nOp 2-6-2018 om 04:07 schreef Marc Aramini:"
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          "text": "This was tough. Late Wolfe is way trickier than I would like him to be \nfor my peace of mind. I suggest readers who want a head start on this \nand have not stayed up to date on my posts look up the Lamia of \nCorinth and Apollonius, as well as the Kikimora and the stories of \nKnecht Ruprecht and Zwarte Piet, though I include all the pertinent \ninformation eventually. The Lamia of Corinth has the ability to \ngenerate the illusion of a mansion and servants from nothing, is \nambiguously gendered (like the figure on the golden coin from Corinth \nin the text), is identified by a terrible stench, and has terrible \neyes which she can remove (see the eyes of Lupine and the vampire \nbutler Nicholas and the stench which accompanies them.) In addition \n... ... ... she drinks the blood of children. So does Nicholas the \nbutler. Her illusions are never pierced in this text, because she \nstrangles Ambrosius (as Goldwurm, of course!) and throws him in the \nriver (In the historical biography, Apollonius pierces though her \nillusions by identifying here.) Guess what never appears in the text \nof the novel? You guessed it - the name Lamia. Why you do this to me, \nGene?https://pastebin.com/B7yGz57Q\n\n\n_______________________________________________"
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    {
      "message_id": "<4737E17E7C8C3C4A8B5C1CE5346371D4A84AAC5A@EXCH06S.adqimr.ad.lan>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David Duffy",
        "address": "david.duffy at qimrberghofer.edu.au"
      },
      "date": "2018-06-04T01:44:31+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Sorcerer's House writeup done at last.",
      "in_reply_to": "<CAF1072z6dtBtJWrbMzVYn1GkKNd--cHuzA9qtpfDJ8vtn9CG6g@mail.gmail.com>",
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          "text": "\"Guess what never appears in the text of the novel?  I'm reminded of Umberto Eco's _Foucault's Pendulum_\nwhich goes through alchemy, the Knights Templar, Kabbalism to Rosicrucianism, never once mentioning the Tarot \n[is it a review by Clute that points this out?]. \n\nCheers, David Duffy."
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