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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/whorl/414",
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  "thread": {
    "id": 414,
    "subject": "Digest whorl.v007.n013",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1997-08-14T13:24:55+00:00",
    "last": "1997-08-15T06:58:27+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0007-0539@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Kieran Mullen",
        "address": "kieran at phyast.nhn.ou.edu"
      },
      "date": "1997-08-14T13:24:55+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Re:  Digest whorl.v007.n013",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Then I drift from book to book and notice that in TBOTNS it is Agia\nwho is associated with peacocks with her \"pavonine\" brochade dress.\nWhich is interesting--Agia as an avenging Hera, Dorcas as Io (not to\nmention the Soldier series), and Severian as Zeus the amorous.  I've\noften wondered about the animal fable layer to TBOTNS, especially\nwhen some characters have clear animal names: Dorcas means gazelle,\nHildegrin is called the Badger, Talos has the face of a stuffed fox,\nand so on.  So I watch for other animal aspects to show up."
        },
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          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "    I think you are off the mark with the Dorcas allusion.  Dorcas\nwas the name of a woman brought back from the dead (by Peter, I think)\nin the New Testament.  (I don't have my RSV here, but it something \nlike her name was Dorcas, but she was also called Tabitha).\n\n             Kieran Mullen"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0007-0541@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alice Turner",
        "address": "al at interport.net"
      },
      "date": "1997-08-15T06:58:27+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Re: Digest whorl.v007.n013",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0007-0539@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
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          "text": "mantis, why do you think the name of the nameless little girl in the\nAntechamber is like that of a starship crew member's job title?\n\nI wonder if we'll ever run into her again.\n\n-alga-"
        }
      ]
    }
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