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  "thread": {
    "id": 570,
    "subject": "new chems",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-11-03T09:15:34+00:00",
    "last": "1998-11-03T09:15:34+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0009-0036@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Matthew Freestone",
        "address": "matthew at matthewf.demon.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "1998-11-03T09:15:34+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) new chems",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "David:"
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          "text": "It's easy to imagine a program that the Chems can run but can't\nconsciously access--they can \"do it\", but are made so they can't figure out how\nthey do it.  I mean, people can have kids, but for most of history, if you'd\ntaken two people aside and said--\"When you have sex and out comes a kid, how\ndoes that work?  I'm thinking of using hearts for power packs on my new\ncatapults,\" well you get the picture."
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          "text": "And for all of history, the parents would tell you where to go. I'd\nespecially not like to try such a request on a heavily armed robot\nsoldier.\nI think the whole chem reproduction process was just an idea that seemed\nneat to Wolfe at the time - I'm sure it wasn't intended to stand up to a\nlot of scrutiny.\n--                              II         |\\      _,,,---,,_\nMatt Freestone                  II    zzz. /,`.-'`'    -.  ;-;;,_.\nmatthew at matthewf.demon.co.uk    II        |,4-  ) )-,_. ,\\ (  `'-'\nwww.matthewf.demon.co.uk/       II       '---''(_/--'  `-'\\_)\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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