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  "thread": {
    "id": 653,
    "subject": "Buried Alive--the secret?",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "1999-10-04T12:25:13+00:00",
    "last": "1999-10-04T12:25:13+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<whorl-v0010-0053@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Patri10629",
        "address": "patri10629 at aol.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-10-04T12:25:13+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl) Buried Alive--the secret?",
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          "text": "Thanks to Alga & Mantis for their input--always a pleasure...but...\n\nIn a message dated 10/3/99 10:37:33 PM, akt at attglobal.net writes:\n\n<< The secret he has learned from Krait is how *not* to kill an inhumu while \ngiving the\nappearance of doing so. >>\n\nI'm going to have to disagree with the learned Alga.\n\nDoesn't Horn say the The Secret was one that could destroy the Inhumi?\nPretty sure he does, though I can't find the reference:(\n\nObviously, burying the suckers alive doesn't destroy them.\n\nIsn't it more likely that Horn simply used the ignorant and ineffective \ncultural capital punishment of his Kingdom\nto his advantage when he felt his \"adopted\" country threatened? This serves \ntwo purposes: provides a distraction while he escapes and turns the tide of \nthe battle.\n\nAlga writes:"
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        {
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          "depth": 2,
          "text": "...How would he possibly know how to do this, and to plan it so far in \nadvance, without"
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          "text": "help? That is why I think this knowledge (and possibly advice too) is Krait's \nsecret.<<\n\nIsn't it more likely that this \"buried alive and the captor bargaining for an \noath of loyalty\" perfectly mirrors\nHorn's horrible experience in the pit with Krait? It worked then. He just \nreversed the predicament.\nSweet justice.\n\nI suspect that, after OBW, we don't yet have enough evidence to deduct the \nSecret.\n\nbest,\n\nPatrick O'leary\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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