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  "thread": {
    "id": 137,
    "subject": "Oracle",
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    "first": "1997-02-27T15:22:00+00:00",
    "last": "1997-02-27T15:22:00+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<whorl-v0003-0192@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "m.driussi",
        "address": "m.driussi at genie.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-02-27T15:22:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Oracle",
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          "text": "Reply:  Item #8070375 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET#\n\n\"Piaton\"\nOxford Dictionary/Saints: none.\nOED: \"piation,\" expiation, atonement (from Latin \"piation-em\")\nLatin: just like OED sez.\nGreek: still and currently unavailable.\nCASTLE OF DAYS: \"Piaton has a human name\" (p. 254).\nMythologies, etc.: nothing here.\n\n----------------\nGene Wolfe's lure (plea?) for Oracular Reading (that is, a reading\nmore mantic than mantic):\n\n\"It seems to me that we can reasonably make two assumptions about\nthese four books.  The first is that they are books Thecla might\nreasonably ask to borrow, and the second is that they all must have\nsomething to do with Severian.  Note, for example, that the pictures\nin the book of devotions are enameled and that Severian will soon\nencounter Dorcas; Dorcas comes from a family once engaged in the\nmanufacture of cloisonne, and she once lived in a shop where it was\nsold.  Cloisonne is a colored decoration of enamels.  In the rest of\nthis essay, however, I will concentrate on the first assumption, not\nwishing to deprive you of the legitimate pleasure of deducting the\nconnections\" (Gene Wolfe, PLAN[E]T ENGINEERING, NESFA Press, p. 9).\n-------------------\n=mantis=\n\nQuestions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com"
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