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  "thread": {
    "id": 263,
    "subject": "Zany Outsider clear",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "1997-04-21T17:11:00+00:00",
    "last": "1997-04-21T17:11:00+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<whorl-v0005-0237@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "m.driussi",
        "address": "m.driussi at genie.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-04-21T17:11:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Zany Outsider clear",
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          "text": "Reply:  Item #1385914 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01#\n\nDave W,\n\n(You sure you want \"newt\"?  A politico chosen by the prosimians?)\n\nAs I see it, it still boils down to the source/power/base of any god\nnot in Mainframe.  If you want to have a backup god that is identical\nin mechanics to the Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality gods of\nMainframe, but you want said backup god to exist outside Mainframe,\nthen I suppose you should posit the existence of \"Miniframe.\"  If,\nOTOH, you want to have a backup god that is biological in nature (an\nAbaia, a Tzadkiel, a Severian the Sleeper), then you should consider\nthose provisions--a sleeper tube, etc.--but as I suggested before, it\nwould seem strange to me that a more powerful biological god (of love\nand kindness) would be held in reserve against the possibility of\ndisaster.\n\nThe Pas fragments we know of are hidden in unsuspecting bios, aren't\nthey?  I'm wondering how the Outsider could manifest from a bunch of\nisolated and unaware individuals.\n\nThen again, if Typhon as Pas is playing the Outsider as well as\nOsiris, I guess that means his redemption is just that much sooner!\n(Remember--devils don't usually play as gods because by doing so they\nwill become infected with god-ness.  Or so says Incus.)\n\nRe: your receptacles of the gods, I wrote about that on Mar 7 \"cold\n'uns & hot\"--I call them god mounts.  I wondered online (later, I think)\nif the talking animals could also be the same sort of artifacts.  And\nI've been considering Silk as a literal biological son of Typhon and Kypris\nfor some long time now (but this is one of the least popular notions).\n\n=mantis="
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