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  "archive": "whorl",
  "thread": {
    "id": 484,
    "subject": "Staves and snakes",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-07-09T22:16:12+00:00",
    "last": "1998-07-09T22:16:12+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0008-0655@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "mary whalen",
        "address": "marewhalen at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-07-09T22:16:12+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl)  Staves and snakes",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "This is Sean Whalen (prion).\n\nWhen I looked back over the archives, I found some comparisons of Silk\nto Moses, but I don't think the similarity of Silk fighting Blood to\nMoses and the magician was mentioned.  Silk has a staff that is also a\nsword, and Blood uses an Azoth.  Silk wins and kills Blood.  This was\nat the end of _Calde of the Long Sun_.\n\nAs the staff is also a sword, so was the stick also a snake.\n\nprion"
        }
      ]
    }
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