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  "thread": {
    "id": 594,
    "subject": "Violet the Szpy",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1999-03-31T09:38:51+00:00",
    "last": "1999-03-31T15:57:50+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0009-0089@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Peter Westlake",
        "address": "peter at harlequin.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "1999-03-31T13:38:11+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Violet the Szpy",
      "in_reply_to": null,
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          "text": "I intended to read the Book again before asking this question,\nbut you can't read a book that size at the drop of a hat, so\nI'll ask while I still remember. Hence lack of references,\nfor which I apologize.\n\nViolet is described in one of the Dramatis Personae lists as\nthe second tallest girl at Orchid's. When Chenille et al emerge\nfrom the tunnels and fetch up at Blood's mansion, someone finds\nher a dress that is almost big enough. Does that mean it belongs\nto Violet?  If so, what does that mean?\n\nSBear.\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0009-0090@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Straight",
        "address": "straight at email.unc.edu"
      },
      "date": "1999-03-31T09:38:51+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl) Violet the Szpy",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0009-0089@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Peter Westlake wrote:\nI intended to read the Book again before asking this question,\nbut you can't read a book that size at the drop of a hat, so\nI'll ask while I still remember. Hence lack of references,\nfor which I apologize.\n\nViolet is described in one of the Dramatis Personae lists as\nthe second tallest girl at Orchid's. When Chenille et al emerge\nfrom the tunnels and fetch up at Blood's mansion, someone finds\nher a dress that is almost big enough. Does that mean it belongs\nto Violet?  If so, what does that mean?"
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          "text": "I imagine it means that Violet and other girls from Orchid's brothel\nregularly entertain people at Blood's mansion.  Blood owns the brothel. \n\n-Rostrum\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0009-0091@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Peter Westlake",
        "address": "peter at harlequin.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "1999-03-31T15:57:50+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl) Violet the Szpy",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0009-0090@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "At 09:38 1999-03-31 -0500, Rostrum wrote:\nOn Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Peter Westlake wrote:"
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        {
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          "depth": 2,
          "text": "I intended to read the Book again before asking this question,\nbut you can't read a book that size at the drop of a hat, so\nI'll ask while I still remember. Hence lack of references,\nfor which I apologize.\n\nViolet is described in one of the Dramatis Personae lists as\nthe second tallest girl at Orchid's. When Chenille et al emerge\nfrom the tunnels and fetch up at Blood's mansion, someone finds\nher a dress that is almost big enough. Does that mean it belongs\nto Violet?  If so, what does that mean?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
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          "text": "I imagine it means that Violet and other girls from Orchid's brothel\nregularly entertain people at Blood's mansion.  Blood owns the brothel. "
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          "text": "True, but we don't need a Wolfeian Clue to tell us that.\nI wondered if there was a tie-in with Dr Crane's spy network,\nespecially as Violet volunteers to entertain the Trivigaunti\ngeneral.\n\nSBear.\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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