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  "thread": {
    "id": 221,
    "subject": "Best Before 250 & Mamelta's memories",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "1997-03-18T17:20:46+00:00",
    "last": "1997-03-18T17:20:46+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0004-0252@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Kieran Cleary",
        "address": "kcleary at tinet.ie"
      },
      "date": "1997-03-18T17:20:46+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Best Before 250 & Mamelta's memories",
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          "text": "Just a couple of quick questions:\n I was reminded by J's mention of \"30th Nemesis \n332\" of the list of numbers of Pas's seal above the \"SEALED FOR THE \nMONARCH\" lettering. Does anyone have any plausible idea \nwhat they mean? I had initially thought they might represent a \nsealing date and an opening date...a sort of \"best before\" warning, \nbut couldn't come up with a convincing explanation to match the \nnumbers without degenerating into dodgy numerology. (Sorry I can't \nreproduce them here, but I don't have a copy of tBotLS III handy).\n\nAlso, has anyone explained why the sleepers (according to Mamelta) \nhad their memories wiped, yet Mamelta remembers, albeit fuzzily, some \nincidents from her childhood while with Silk, and also being told \nthat she and the other sleepers-to-be were being taken to some sort \nof land-of-plenty. It seems a bit of a red \nherring to me: I don't accept Mamelta's explanation for the Whorl \nreligion and deification of the royal family. She seemed to think that \nthe memory wipe couldn't completely eradicate all memories of the strong \npersonalities of the Typhon clan, so an artificial religion was \ncreated to give erroneous substance to these vague recollections. \nThis seems an unlikely and drastic solution and it's not clear what \nit accomplishes. Any comments gratefully received.\n\nFWIW, I'd also like to see a separate mailing list for other Wolfe \nworks, that is, unless a stronger plot link between tBotLS & tBotNS\nbecomes apparent <grin>.\n\nLasrach\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 tinet.ie\n___________________________________________________________\n\nQuestions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com"
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