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  "thread": {
    "id": 187,
    "subject": "Quetzal & his body suit",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1997-04-11T15:33:18+00:00",
    "last": "1997-04-11T15:33:18+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0004-0031@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Kieran Cleary",
        "address": "kcleary at tinet.ie"
      },
      "date": "1997-04-11T15:33:18+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl) Quetzal & his body suit",
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          "text": "vizcacha:\n\nmore out of mischievousness than anything else,"
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        {
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          "text": "His neck is unnaturally long and wrinkled, "
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "You might expect some stretching and pulling when a human body is \nused as a piece of apparel"
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        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "his profile is nearly noseless, "
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "and some wear and tear over the years..."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "his head\nsways from side to side, "
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        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "sure, there is a snake inside..."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "he is light but strong, and so on."
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        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "because his form belies his innards..."
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          "text": " There is\nalso a description of him touching up his makeup (on the first page of\n_Calde_):  \"He had shaped and colored his face and neck with care upon\narising...\"  Later, \"he extracted the puff ... and applied flesh-toned\npowder delicately to the small, sharp chin he had shaped with such care\nupon arising.\""
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          "text": " \nIs it really feasible that, with deft application of putty and \nfoundation that a scarlet-plumed serpent could masquerade as a human? \n<g>\n\n\nLasrach\n \n____________________________________________________________\nKieran Cleary\nSenior Research Engineer\nNorth West Labs\nFinisklin Industrial Estate\nSligo\nRepublic of Ireland\n\nTel. +353 71 69441\nFax. +353 71 69451\nemail kcleary at nwlabs.com\n___________________________________________________________"
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