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  "thread": {
    "id": 168,
    "subject": "The Outsider:  Severian?!",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1997-04-07T14:56:51+00:00",
    "last": "1997-04-07T14:56:51+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0004-0006@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Keith Fields",
        "address": "100530.2154 at compuserve.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-04-07T14:56:51+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Re: The Outsider:  Severian?!",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "\"Voices...One spoke into each ear most of the time. One was very\nmasculine--not falsely deep, but solid, as if a mountain of stone\nwere speaking. The other was feminine, a sort of gentle cooing; yet\nboth voices were his..>>\n\n<<If that isn't Severian, I'll eat my mouse.>>\n\nAlga:  Yes!  I'm in total agreement.  If that isn't Severian, I'll\neat my keyboard!  How about this, from Nightside, pg 10:\n\n\"It was the voices that mattered, only the paired voices (though\nthere were more, he felt sure, if only he had ears for them)...\"\n\nThe moment I read that passage four years ago, I was thrilled,\nbecause I knew Severian was back.\n\nOn page 66 of Nightside, Maytera Marble says the Outsider was\nworshipped on the Short Sun whorl, before the ship was finished.\nCouldn't that be the Conciliator?\n\nI know others have suggested that the vision Silk sees of the\ncriminal on the scaffold is Christ.  Couldn't this have been from a\ntorture that Severian performed?  Remember, early in New Sun,\nSeverian wrote that he wouldn't describe all the excruciations he\nperformed.\n\nNow, don't ask me to explain how Severian's consciousness came to\nbe on the Whorl, or why he would take such an interest in the Whorl.\nI'm still working on those!\n\n-Keith (No Vironese name yet)"
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