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  "thread": {
    "id": 52,
    "subject": "Digest whorl.v001.n029",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1997-01-29T16:31:40+00:00",
    "last": "1997-01-30T05:52:33+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0002-0087@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David_Lebling",
        "address": "david_lebling at avid.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-01-29T16:35:22+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Digest whorl.v001.n029",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "From: Charles Dye <raster at highfiber.com>"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "IIRC, Patera Pike doesn't fly; he dissolves.  Surely we can find some\nother\nsmall dark character who flies out windows?  <grin>"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Well, if you mean Oreb, he denied it, and I trust him.\n\n     Dave Lebling\n     (david_lebling at avid.com)\n\nQuestions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0002-0088@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David_Lebling",
        "address": "david_lebling at avid.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-01-29T16:31:40+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Digest whorl.v001.n029",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0002-0087@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
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          "text": "From: CoxRathvon at aol.com\n   The mystery continues, even for Silk.  Quetzal tells him (p. 327)"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "\"We"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "thought you were dead.\""
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "And he and Incus give Silk the Pardon of Pas."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": " And he adds that Auk and Chenille \"promised to\nreturn for your body.\"  But later (p. 350), when Silk meets Chenille\nat\nBlood's villa, Chenille says, \"We knew you were alive.  His Cognizance\nsaid\nthere was a pulse.\"\nThis makes Silk ponder (while the others are discussing Quetzal), and\nI quote\nfrom p. 350:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "During Silk's near-death experience alluded to earlier in your message,\nhe sees Quetzal and Incus giving him the Pardon of Pas, which\ncorroborates part of Quetzal's story.\n\nStiff neck or no, is there any evidence that Silk was bitten by Quetzal?\nRecall that in the previous week Silk has been bitten by a vulture, had\nhis leg broken, been tortured by electric shocks, and been shot with a\nneedler.  In spite of all this he manages walk and run hither and yon in\nand under Viron, fight a duel, conduct sacrifices, make love to Hyacinth\n(I think), etc. etc.  This guy is _tough_.  What's a little fall and\nburial alive to a guy like him?  He was losing blood the day before\n(needler wound), but there's no description of bleeding in this passage.\n\nWhich is not to say I don't find your theory possible, even probable.\nBut we don't know anything about Quetzal having a healing or even\ntransfusing ability.  There is an interesting passage on p. 283 of the\npaperback edition:\n\n        Oosik smiled. \"You are better already, I think. I was greatly   \n   concerned for you when I saw you.\" He looked at the surgeon. \"What   \n do you think, Doctor? Should our calde have more blood?\"\n        Quetzal stiffened, and the surgeon shook his head.\n\nHmmm.\n\nOn another Quetzal-related issue, I've maligned him several times in\nthis newsletter by stating that he was the \"large snake\" that bit\nVillus.  In fact it was one of the snakes summoned by Echidna during her\ntheophany and possession of Maytera Rose that bit Villus.  My apologies.\n\n     Dave Lebling\n     (david_lebling at avid.com)\n\nQuestions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0002-0089@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Doug Eigsti",
        "address": "douge at nti.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-01-30T05:52:33+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl) Digest whorl.v001.n029",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0002-0088@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "[Posted from Whorl, the mailing list for Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun]"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "From: Charles Dye <raster at highfiber.com>"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "IIRC, Patera Pike doesn't fly; he dissolves.  Surely we can find some\nother\nsmall dark character who flies out windows?  <grin>"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Well, if you mean Oreb, he denied it, and I trust him.\n\n     Dave Lebling\n     (david_lebling at avid.com)"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "How about a \"notule\"? They, too, are black and fly like bats.\n\n\tDoug Eigsti\n\tdouge at nti.com\n\nQuestions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com"
        }
      ]
    }
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