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  "thread": {
    "id": 244,
    "subject": "Tick Tock",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1997-03-26T09:19:33+00:00",
    "last": "1997-03-26T09:19:33+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0004-0282@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David_Lebling",
        "address": "david_lebling at avid.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-03-26T09:19:33+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Tick Tock",
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      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "I think Tick is most likely male.  I believe a Trivigaunti (Saba?) calls\nthe catachrest \"she\" at one point, but that would be expected, wouldn't\nit?\n\nI don't think we know as much about catachrests as we might think.  I\nknow I always viewed Tick as being a \"cat\" rather than a \"humanoid,\"\nalthough the latter word is also used to describe him.\n\nHe has orange and gray(?) fur, small sharp teeth and claws, can stand on\nhis hind legs if he wants to (according to the animal seller). \nUpper-class women on the Palatine use catachrests as baby substitutes\n(they nurse them, again according to the animal seller), although there\nis a definite sexual implication in that reference, a \"perversions of\nthe rich\" sort of thing.  Like Silk and (likely) Oreb he is probably a\nproduct of genetic tinkering.\n\nI still tend to see him as a cat rather than (say) a golden lion\ntamarind.\n\nWhere does he go? He's not with Hy in the final scenes. Does he end up\nanother homeless kitty in the ruins of Viron?\n\nOn a slight tangent, there are no dogs on the Whorl that I recall, aside\nfrom the \"bufes\" (who are probably hyenas rather than wild dogs, the\npalindromic possibilities of dog <-> god aside). Right?\n\n     -vizcacha\n     (david_lebling at avid.com)\n\nQuestions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com"
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