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  "thread": {
    "id": 32,
    "subject": "Another victim; The dinner party; Who's the spy?; Moly",
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    "first": "1997-01-20T09:15:55+00:00",
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      "message_id": "<whorl-v0001-0050@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David_Lebling",
        "address": "david_lebling at avid.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-01-20T09:15:55+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Another victim; The dinner party; Who's the spy?; Moly",
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          "text": "Finished my second reading of _Exodus_ this weekend.  Here are some\nthings that I noted.\n\nTowards the end of Exodus, we learn of another victim of the inhumi; a\nboy called Villus, who reports having been attacked by an\nextraordinarily large snake.  The second victim, of course, was Mattak,\nColonel Oosik's son.  The first was Teasel.  Any others?  What was the\nbusiness about the sores on the convict's legs, anyway?  Mint dismissed\nthem, which is usually a good bet there was something more to it...\n\nThere's another interesting event at the dinner party in the Calde's\npalace.  Clams are one of the dishes, and Silk encourages Oreb to eat as\nmany as he wants, but Oreb (in spite of a fondness for clams), won't\nmove from his perch until Chenille takes the platter and serves him. Why\nis this?  Well, Wolfe goes to great trouble to tell us the exact seating\narrangement at the meal.  Silk is at one end of the table, with Siyuf\nnext to him and Quetzal next to her.  The plate of clams is too close to\nQuetzal for the bird's comfort!  Note also in this scene that Mattak\nremarks on how much better he feels when Quetzal leaves.\n\nNext, we come to spies. When the soldiers are meeting with Siyuf (after\nSilk's parley with the Ayuntamiento where he \"surrenders\"), they are\ndoing a little verbal sparring.  The soldiers reveal that Silk has\nsurrendered.  Siyuf is unimpressed.  She says she already knew, because\nColonel Abanja has a spy in Silk's household.  Now, the obvious thought\nis that this spy is Willet/Hossaan, but he wasn't there during the peace\nparley; he bursts in at the end with some goons and goonettes to try to\ncapture everyone.  So, who is the spy?  Given all the suspicions\nexpressed in this group toward Hyacinth, it's most interesting that she\nis one of the attendees.  Who else \"in Silk's household\" would be a\nsuspect?\n\nFinally, as yet another spur to reading the Dramatis Personae, I urge\nyou to check out the entries for Marble and Moly.  In fact, I need do no\nmore than note that there are two entries...  I can't say that her\ndeception fooled me (maybe it wasn't intended to), but this would have\nconfirmed it.  In fact, another minor mystery:  Marble/Maggie says she\nwas abandoned by her husband.  I didn't see anything else about that\n(did I miss something?).  Did Hammerstone twig that she was lying?  What\nhappened to their daughter?\n\n     Dave Lebling\n     (david_lebling at avid.com)\n\nQuestions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com"
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