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  "thread": {
    "id": 366,
    "subject": "Pike's Ghost",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1997-06-24T16:06:01+00:00",
    "last": "1997-06-24T21:14:00+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0006-0387@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alice Turner",
        "address": "al at ny.playboy.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-06-24T16:06:01+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Pike's Ghost",
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          "text": "mantis,\n\nVance is right--we should clear up Pike's ghost. Couldn't it be a \"baker's\ndozen\" or \"one-to-grow-on\" question from all of us as a group on top of our\nindividual questions? I think the wording should be more specific---Weasel\nshould be Wolfe's Vironese name! What about: \"Is the apparation at the top\nof the stairs that Silk takes for Pike's ghost really a form (i.e.\naquastor/eidolon) of Pike? If not, who or what is it?\"\n\nAlternately, \"Is 'Pike's ghost' really Quetzal? If not, who or what is it?\"\n\n-alga"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0006-0388@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "m.driussi",
        "address": "m.driussi at genie.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-06-24T21:14:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Pike's Ghost",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0006-0387@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "Reply:  Item #7269253 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00#\n\nalga,\n\nTrue, further questions might help.  And multiple choice would narrow\nit down.  Since Wolfe wrote \"it wasn't machine made,\" I'm inclined to\nthink that Pike's ghost is neither aquastor nor eidolon--not wanting to\ndrive into the but-an-AI-computer-isn't-a-machine avenue (I think it\nwould be a blind alley).\n\nSo it seems to me we are down to two candidates: alien (inhumu, Quetzal\nor some other one) and miraculous (along the lines of the\nenlightenments--i.e., it is a real ghost).  The thing seems to have physical\npresence--wears the beanie, after all.\n\nTherefore, your second version: \"Is `Pike's ghost' really Quetezal?\nIf not, who or what is it?\" appears to fit the bill.\n\nAnd, if we don't get a whole bunch of questions from new people, then\nwe can let it be yours.  (Or vizcacha's, if he wants to use it as his\nfollow-up.)\n\n=mantis="
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