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  "thread": {
    "id": 1507,
    "subject": "liana staff",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2002-01-02T01:22:59+00:00",
    "last": "2002-01-02T01:22:59+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0013-whorl.v012.n178.2@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "maa32",
        "address": "maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu"
      },
      "date": "2002-01-02T01:22:59+00:00",
      "subject": "liana staff",
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          "text": "Since it seems like there is very little going on in the discussio lately, \nI'll continue posting my crazed observations.\n\nWhat have we made of the narrator's staff in The Book of the Short Sun?  I \nknow mention was made of Cugino's cutting stroke as conceivably multi-limbed \nin nature.  Here are a few other interesting things:\nIn On Blue's Waters, the narrator reveals that the most horrible things on \ngreen where the huge trees that ate each other, and even more horrible were \nthe strangling liana vines, the \"female\" aspect of the cannibalistic foliage.  \nCugino cuts the staff from a vine resembling the lianas.  Are there lianas on \nBlue?  It would seem that there are, for the following reasons:\nIn On Blue's Waters, the narrator reveals that the scary island he tarried \nupon before reaching Pajarocu was actually made up of huge, huge trees.  When \nthe storm hit, he could see that they bloomed from the ocean and separated.  \nThe pit he fell into was covered by vines.  These vines might have been the \nlianas that were so awful to him on Green.\n\nNow, if these liana vines are wicked, and Cugino made his staff from one, how \nare the neighbors related to lianas?  Remember that fellow in the town of \nBlanko who went into the forest to cut wood, and said that the neigbors were \nlooking at him in so unfriendly a fashion that he had to turn around?  Had he \nthreatened the vines?  What powers does the staff really have, with its little \nface?  Why does the narrator always ask for it, but seems to never possess it, \nwhen he partakes in that astral travel.  Remember, too, that the neighbors \nfirst take notice of Horn after he falls into the pit on Blue when he disturbs \nthe vines that hide the pit.  (of course, he has also looked through the blue \nglass - but which is the true trigger of their attention?)\nMarc"
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