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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/whorl/327",
    "note": "Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it.  Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.",
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  "archive": "whorl",
  "thread": {
    "id": 327,
    "subject": "Digest whorl.v005.n023",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1997-06-04T09:47:20+00:00",
    "last": "1997-06-05T20:37:05+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0005-0326@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alice Turner",
        "address": "al at interport.net"
      },
      "date": "1997-06-04T09:47:20+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Re: Digest whorl.v005.n023",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": " Aren't priests the only ones who carry the gammadion?  For \nthat matter, is anyone besides Silk mentioned as having one?  \nFurthermore, the gammadion does function as a tool for working on the \n'Windows', the sources of 'revelation' whether you regard that revelation"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "as true or false or (better I think) truth which conceals another truth? "
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "And I don't think that Wolfe uses language in a sort of simple \nequivalence such as gammadion = screwdriver and nothing more; after all, \nhe could have invented some science fictinal gobbledygook for futuristic \ntools like they do on Star Trek (induced phase decoupler or some such \nnonsense)."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "All priests carry them and have been taught to use them to fix Windows.\nThey get fancier with rank---Quetzal's is jeweled. Incus fixes Hammerstone\nwith one, and his non-priestly black mechanic pals doubtless wield them\ntoo, possibly illegally or at least heretically. \n\nI don't think any of us thinks of a simple equivalent (gammadion =\nscrewdriver), but it doesn't hurt to use an analogy. Mantis once came up\nwith gammadion = Swiss Army knife, and I rather like that.\n\n-alga- "
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0005-0328@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Richman",
        "address": "mrichman at cybernex.net"
      },
      "date": "1997-06-05T20:37:05+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Re: Digest whorl.v005.n023",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0005-0326@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "And I don't think that Wolfe uses language in a sort of simple \nequivalence such as gammadion = screwdriver and nothing more; after all, \nhe could have invented some science fictinal gobbledygook for futuristic \ntools like they do on Star Trek (induced phase decoupler or some such \nnonsense)."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": " see below "
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "All priests carry them and have been taught to use them to fix Windows.\nThey get fancier with rank---Quetzal's is jeweled. Incus fixes Hammerstone\nwith one, and his non-priestly black mechanic pals doubtless wield them\ntoo, possibly illegally or at least heretically. "
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Quetzal doesn't fix Hammerstone with a gammadion but with something called\nan \"optisynapter\" IIRC.  The Quetzal was able to repair Maytera Marbles arm\nwhile Silk was not.\n\n\nMichael Richman\n380 Homans Av\nCloster, NJ  07624\nmrichman at bc.cybernex.net"
        }
      ]
    }
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