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  "thread": {
    "id": 855,
    "subject": "Green eyes: disproof of assassin theory?",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-06-23T14:08:22+00:00",
    "last": "1998-06-23T14:08:22+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0015-0001@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Peter Cash",
        "address": "cash at rsn.hp.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-06-23T14:08:22+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Green eyes: disproof of assassin theory?",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "alga wrote:\n\nNice to see you again, sir!"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Thank you. It's good to be on active duty again."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "You make a good argument wrt Marsch's humanity and villainy, but there's\nstrong evidence against it, and that is his bright green eyes--the boy and\nhis mother both have bright green eyes, and that is not a human shade. The\nboy also has pale skin and dark hair, as does the Marsch we see.\n\nYou could argue against that, of course, by saying that we only have\nMarsch's word for that--but then we start going round in circles."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "You mean we haven't been? 8^)\n\nWe know that the text of the second two novellas in 5th Head is, to some\ndegree, unreliable--I just think it's more unreliable than most\nparticipants of this list do. I believe that \"A Story\" and \"V.R.T.\" are\ncalculated disinformation (while the first novella is merely a\nself-serving autobiography). So of course my defense against your\nattack, my dear green friend, is to assert that Marsch wrote about the\nboy's green eyes (and his mother's matching ones, and the stuff about\nabos having green eyes in \"A Story\") precisely because he himself has\nsuch green eyes. In fact, it must be that many Annese have green eyes\n(maybe they interbred with abos, and acquired this trait). Marsch hopes,\nif not to convince his captors, at least to distract them, to give them\nsomething else to think about than his mission. Yes, it's circular...but\nthat's my point.\n\nWhile looking over the passage where Number Five first meets Marsch and\nnotices his green eyes, I came across Marsch's mention that Number Five\nis a clone of his father. Others have asked how Marsch could possibly\nknow this...but my theory provides an answer! 8^) \n\nMarsch knows exactly what Maitre looks like, though he has never met the\nmaster of 666 Saltimbanque. Why? Because his handlers have shown him\npictures of his intended target! Thus, when he meets the boy, he\nrealizes that he looks so like his father that it is likely that they\nare clones.\n\nAnd what color are alga's eyes?\n\nSgt. Rock"
        }
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