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  "thread": {
    "id": 818,
    "subject": "Re. Severian' reticence",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-06-17T10:56:11+00:00",
    "last": "1998-06-17T10:56:11+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0014-0032@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Ye Olde Mothman",
        "address": "mothman at peak.org"
      },
      "date": "1998-06-17T10:56:11+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re. Severian' reticence",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "One of Severian's quirks as a narrator, and one which makes it quite\ndifficult to get a grasp of his character, is his sometimes withholding an\nimportant fact about a situation until long after he has seemingly\nfinished narrating that situation."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "3) What explains, in particular, his suppression of the sexual\nrelationship between himself and Thecla?  (Severian's motives for the\nother two omissions are more obvious.)  I can think of two, not\nnecessarily exclusive, possibilities.  Severian, as we know, has a rather\nunhealthy attitude towards women.  He may not have wanted to contaminate"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I've never attributed any underlying motive for it, just narrative effect.\nThese facts seem to weigh a little heavier when divulged at a later time,\nalmost as if revealed in confidentiality.  Just my take on it."
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
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