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  "thread": {
    "id": 1289,
    "subject": "Four Legs Good, Eight Legs Better",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2001-03-27T10:39:56+00:00",
    "last": "2001-03-27T10:39:56+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0488@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes",
        "address": "ddanehy at siebel.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-03-27T10:39:56+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Four Legs Good, Eight Legs Better",
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          "text": "Ummmm. A great big \"huh?\" just hit me.\n\nThe inhumi can imitate us.\n\nThe inhumi can imitate Neighbors.\n\nHow many limbs have the inhumi? And how can they imitate both us\nand the Neighbors? Or ... can they?\n\nHow much \"information\" do the inhumi get from their victims? We\nknow that they get some kind of intelligence/memory/personality\ndownload; do they get some kind of genetic/somatic download also?\n\nIs this yet another case of Wolfe playing Lysenko games?\n\nAaaargh!\n\n--A very-upset-and-scurrying-under-the-linoleum Blattid\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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