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  "thread": {
    "id": 786,
    "subject": "5HC: Abo Dex, 5 Legs",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-06-15T00:06:00+00:00",
    "last": "1998-06-15T00:06:00+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0013-0056@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "m.driussi",
        "address": "m.driussi at genie.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-06-15T00:06:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) 5HC: Abo Dex, 5 Legs",
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          "text": "alga,\n\nNot to belabor any points, since I'm not trying to change your mind\nabout Jeanine as abo, nor change your mind about anything else, nor\ndo I mean to badger you in any way.\n\nBut if V.R.T. is \"half abo,\" and V.R.T. is the only\nsemi-representative of abo-dom we have in the text, then what does\nthat mean, to you, about his tool using abilities with rope, knife,\nand rifle?  And do you yourself then make assumptions about what\n\"pure abo\" tool using abilities might be based upon your opinion\nof V.R.T.'s abilities, or do you avoid all such speculation as\nbeing impossible given the \"half-breed\" nature of the sample?\n\nI mean, you seem to have some very definite ideas of abo ability (for\nexample, the ability to use a house key which you gave in dismissing\nthe Jeanine as abo theory), and I'm curious to know what your ideas\nare (since we're all so murky, any set is good for a start) and how\nthey are affected (if at all) by hybridization-through-heredity.\n\nNow for something new--this \"Five Legs\" thing.  (A constellation in\n5HC.)  Quite curious.  It might be a genuine personal Wolfe thing.\nThe chapter with that name in SHADOW OF THE TORTURER shows that the\nlegs belong to aquastors Triskele and Malrubius.  Otherwise it is\ndifficult to imagine a creature with five legs, unless we mean a\nstarfish--i.e., a five-pointed star.  (And there is some sort of\nWolfe importance to five-pointed stars, like the glowing man-apes;\nbut this five legs business seems more important.)\n\nCasting about, what could \"five legs\" be?  I thought of the tripod\n(no doubt zeroing in on Triskele's name) and the pythoness.  Well\nthat's mantic, no question!  Oracle of Delphi, three legs and two\nlegs.  Still I wonder.\n\n=mantis="
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