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  "thread": {
    "id": 709,
    "subject": "3 waves of colonists",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-06-02T04:21:00+00:00",
    "last": "1998-06-02T04:21:00+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0012-0049@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "m.driussi",
        "address": "m.driussi at genie.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-06-02T04:21:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) 3 waves of colonists",
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          "text": "There could be more than one wave of ancient colonists to Sainte\nAnne.  Arbitrarily:\n\nGondwanaland: the Shadow Children (goblins)\nEtruscan Italy: the Wetlanders (trolls)\nHomeric Greece: the Free People (elves and dryads)\nPoictsme: ?\nCountry of Friends: ?\n---------------------\n\nA note about the lethal twins and David:\n\nI wonder if David was designed by Maitre to be his own tanist--that\nis, a twin for Number Five to kill in rivalry instead of killing\nMaitre in usurpation?\n\nIt nearly happens, when the attack on the \"mantis\" slave goes awry\nand Number Five's knife goes into David's thigh (with shades of the\nbrother-kill-brother in \"A Story\").  As Maitre patches David's leg up\nwithout comment, he must be realizing that the ploy didn't work.\n\n=mantis="
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