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  "thread": {
    "id": 967,
    "subject": "Inire R.I.P.?",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "1998-07-12T00:58:00+00:00",
    "last": "1998-07-12T00:58:00+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0016-0061@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "m.driussi",
        "address": "m.driussi at genie.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-07-12T00:58:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Inire R.I.P.?",
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          "text": "Add to the rumors of Inire's death mill:\n\nThe scene--survivors floating on the Flood waters, circa 50 S.R.\n\nThe speaker--Odilo (III), responding to Severian incognito, who asked\nif his father was steward in the same place before him.\n\nThe quote: \"He [Odilo II] was indeed, sieur, and gave the most\ncomplete satisfaction all his life. =That was in the great days of\nFather Inire=, sieur, when, if I may say so, sieur, our Hypogeum\nApotropaic was famous all across the Commonwealth\" (V, ch. 44,\nitalics mine).\n\nThe \"great days\"?  Meaning either, \"when Inire was still sprightly\"\nor \"when Inire was still alive\"?\n\nMore dredging:\n\n\"The Cat\" is told by Odilo (II) who heard it from Odilo (I), who was\na contemporary of the chatelaine Sancha.  Odilo (II), the one who met\nSeverian as torturer wandering in the House Absolute, began serving\nin 16 P.S. (pre-Severian's Reign) and was still working 20 years\nlater when he wrote \"The Cat\" in 5 S.R.\n\nOdillo II is a plump man of fifty or so (I, ch. 19) in 1 P.S., which\nsuggests that he was thirty-five when he succeeded his father as\nsteward.  (And recalls the long apprenticeship of Cyby.)\n\nIf son is like father, then Odillo III is fifty years old in 50 S.R.\n(and looks just like him), suggesting that he too began serving at\nthe age of thirty-five, which would be 35 S.R. (and making him meet\nSeverian for the first time in the fifteenth year of his\nservice--just like dad did!)\n\n           BORN      SERVICE\nOdilo I    80 P.S.   xx P.S. to 16 P.S.\nOdilo II   50 P.S.   16 P.S. to 35 S.R.\nOdilo III   1 P.S.   35 S.R. to 50 S.R.\n\nSo =maybe= Odilo II served until 35 S.R., and for one reason or the\nother, this period is known as \"the great days of Father Inire.\"\n\n=mantis="
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