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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/955",
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  "thread": {
    "id": 955,
    "subject": "living a score",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-07-10T14:37:06+00:00",
    "last": "1998-07-10T14:37:06+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0016-0045@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan Parmenter",
        "address": "dan at lec.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-07-10T14:37:06+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) living a score",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "From: m.driussi at genie.com\nWith that out of the way--Inire as regent: what a dumb idea!  Poor\nlittle wry-neck Inire, ancient and twisted!  They only live a score\nof years!  (That's 20, for you ultramoderns--so Inire is what, 19 or\n21 already?)  Serving autarchs since Ymar, skipping through the\ncorridors of time!  All reinforcing the notion that the trip to Yesod\nwas thought to take less than a year."
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          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Surely not *all* Hierodules only live to be 20.  I seem to recall we\nonly hear that of Famulimus and Barbatus.  What about the Cumaean?\n\nBTW, on an unrelated point, do people assume that the advanced tech of\nthe Extra Solaraians is of a sort that can essentially allow for a\nspaceship of any shape?  If so, is the ship of the Hieros we see\nhovering over Baldanders' castle intended to look like a standard\nFlying Saucer (which is how it is described) so that it will influence\nthe past's perceptions/expectations of how extraterrestrial crafts\nshould look?  Wolfe has admitted to having some fondness for UFO books\n(In the intro to STORYES).  I've always been fascinated by the fact\nthat image of a \"saucer\" apparently was apparently originally invoked\nby Kenneth Arnold to describe the *motion* of what he saw, not its\nshape.  I believe that disc-shaped UFOs had been reported before, but\nI'm assuming that the modern conception of the \"flying saucer\" is a\n1950's thing and this seems to be what Wolfe is tapping into, complete\nwith bug-eyed monster crews, etc.  Perhaps if he'd grown up in the\npost-Strieber age he'd be describing them differently.\n\nD"
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