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  "thread": {
    "id": 330,
    "subject": "Tools of the Trade",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1997-06-06T06:14:00+00:00",
    "last": "1997-06-06T06:14:00+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0005-0331@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "m.driussi",
        "address": "m.driussi at genie.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-06-06T06:14:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Tools of the Trade",
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          "text": "Reply:  Item #6824766 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01#\n\nMichael Richman,\n\nWhat you say about =Quetzal's= repairs of =Hammerstone= seems odd\n(since I mainly remember Auk using the opticsynapter to repair Sand),\nbut if you mean to suggest by this that alga (or whoever\nwrote that second post you quote) is misremembering Incus repairing\nHammerstone then I'll remind you of the repairs in the tunnel (CALDE\nch. 2, p. 59) that made Hammerstone the best buddy of Incus.  And\nyes, he used an opticsynapter (EXODUS p. 139) probably in addition\n(heh) to the voided cross (in screwdriver mode); but yes, he is a\npracticing black mechanic where Silk is not.\n\nIf you meant to say that there are other tools at play besides just\nthe nigh ubiquitous voided crosses, there's not likely to be any\nargument there!  (The opticsynapter is said to be for the fiberoptic\nlines.)\n\nIf you wanted to probe the origins of the particular optisynapter (I\nvaguely remember--was it originally Doctor Crane's?), the hows and\nwhys of it, then by all means, go to.\n\n=mantis="
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