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  "thread": {
    "id": 1283,
    "subject": "point to Borski",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2001-03-23T18:19:23+00:00",
    "last": "2001-03-23T18:19:23+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0480@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan Parmenter",
        "address": "dan at lec.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-03-23T18:19:23+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) point to Borski",
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          "text": "From: \"Robert Borski\" <rborski at charter.net>\nI doubt you'll find much support for the notion that Hierodule is a generic\nterm for all aliens--unlike, say, cacogen, or as you mention, extrasolarian."
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          "depth": 0,
          "text": "[...]"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Famulimus trilled, \"Hierodule is 'holy slave.'\" (p. 36)"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "So clearly Wolfe is using \"Hierodule\" specifically to designate the\naliens who hail from Yesod, not Briah or the front pages of the\nNational Enquirer."
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          "text": "Okay, point taken.  I remembered the line about \"holy slave\" after I\nposted.  I suppose the only legs that the Cumaean-as-Inhuma hypothesis\nhas left to stand on would require that a) Severian was wrong (as he\noften is) about the Cumaean being a Hierodule or b) the Inhumi DO come\nfrom Yesod, which is certainly an interesting thought.\n\nShellac\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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