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  "thread": {
    "id": 579,
    "subject": "Silk Circles Edition 2",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-12-04T01:53:32+00:00",
    "last": "1998-12-04T01:53:32+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0009-0056@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Patri10629",
        "address": "patri10629 at aol.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-12-04T01:53:32+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl) Silk Circles Edition 2",
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          "text": "Curious further adventures in cheek rubbing....\n\n\nFrom EXODUS FROM THE LONG SUN, CHAPTER 1 (HARDCOVER), PG 21:\n\n(Mint and Remora discover Councillor Potto's body at Bloods.)\n\n\"Gently at first, then with increased vigor, Maytera Mint rubbed the\ncouncillor's cheek. 'This is a chem!'\"\n\nLove that: \"increased vigor.\"\n\nBut why? Why does the cheek reveal the artificial body? Why not the arm, the\nhand, the ear, or whatever? And why o why does rubbing it do the trick? Is\nSilk, when he habitually repeats this gesture, questioning his own nature?\n\nPatrick O'Leary\n\n<A HREF=\"http://members.aol.com/patri10629/index.html\">Patrick O'Leary's Home\nPage</A>\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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