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  "thread": {
    "id": 49,
    "subject": "Digest whorl.v001.n028",
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    "first": "1997-01-27T17:05:20+00:00",
    "last": "1997-01-27T17:05:20+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<whorl-v0002-0084@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Charles Dye",
        "address": "raster at highfiber.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-01-27T17:05:20+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Re: Digest whorl.v001.n028",
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          "text": "More on Pike-as-aquastor.  These from David_Lebling at avid.com:"
        },
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "The question was raised (I don't recall by whom) of how one can see\none's dead relatives in Mainframe if most people spend their lives (and\ndeaths) outside the view of Windows, Glasses, and Monitors.  I should\nthink the answer is obvious.  The data about the dead relatives is\nextracted from the _viewer_.  That is, when (say) Horn talks to his\nrelatives, it is his own memories of them that are used to create what\nhe sees(*), perhaps with whatever \"public record\" scaffolding is\navailable to Mainframe to firm them up."
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          "text": "This fits very nicely with Master Malrubius's explanation to Severian.\nAnother mention of these creations appears near the end of \"The Urth of\nthe New Sun\":  Famulimus states categorically that the Hierodules only\nmake eidolons of the dead.  This also fits Patera Pike."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "However, I don't think aquastors turn into small dark things that fly\nout windows, so to me it's not quite an adequate explanation."
        },
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          "text": "IIRC, Patera Pike doesn't fly; he dissolves.  Surely we can find some other\nsmall dark character who flies out windows?  <grin>\n\nraster at highfiber.com\n\n\nQuestions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com"
        }
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