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  "archive": "urth",
  "thread": {
    "id": 983,
    "subject": "Urth condemned, the Autarch's memories",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-07-14T09:56:03+00:00",
    "last": "1998-07-14T09:56:03+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0017-0004@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Mark Andersen",
        "address": "manderse at nmsu.edu"
      },
      "date": "1998-07-14T09:56:03+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Urth condemned, the Autarch's memories",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "adam louis stephanides <astephan at students.uiuc.edu> wrote:\nthe Autarchy\nwas created about the same time as Urth was condemned by the\nHierogrammates (the end of Typhon's reign),"
        },
        {
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          "depth": 0,
          "text": "This statement really rang the alarm bells for me. I wonder now if\nTyphon's\nhubris, setting himself and his family up as gods to be worshipped on\nthe\nWhorl, was the abomination that led to the condemnation of Urth? Were\nthere other Whorls besides the one we read of in the Long Sun (almost\ncertainly, I would guess)? Is this a substantive link or a coincidental\nlink\nbetween the Long Sun's story of true vs. false gods and the New Sun's\nstory of true vs. false redemption?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "m.driussi at genie.com wrote:\nWe\neven have text (in URTH) to show what that is like: the old\nautarch(s) gather up and say, \"Find somebody else right now (because\nyou are dying).\""
        },
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          "text": "My impression has always been that this is because they wish to live on.\nThus\nthe personalities of the dead Autarchs insist :\"Find another\" (body for\nus to\nlive in)!\n\ncheers,\nButeo"
        },
        {
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          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Dr. Mark C. Andersen, Department of Fishery and Wildlife Sciences\nNew Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003-0003\nvoice:(505) 646-8034   FAX:  (505) 646-1281\nmanderse at nmsu.edu, http://leopold.nmsu.edu/manderse/markhome.htm"
        }
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