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  "thread": {
    "id": 660,
    "subject": "[BLUE notes, spoilers]",
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    "first": "1999-10-05T17:51:04+00:00",
    "last": "1999-10-05T17:51:04+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0010-0061@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Andre-Driussi",
        "address": "mantis at sirius.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-10-05T17:51:04+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) [BLUE notes, spoilers]",
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          "text": "\"Gaon\" is Hebrew, meaning \"genius,\" according to printform OED.\n\nThere.  Now alga can go to town with the CD-ROM version, and the other new\nwords!\n\n(I had the sense that the Neighbors were centaurs, too, just centaurs with\nmore arms.  Furthermore, that Seawrack is a human who was taken alive by\nthe Mother at a young age, given gills, and taught certain tricks and\nmagic.)\n\nAs for the secret.  Well blood magic (and \"intelligent blood\") certainly\nfits on many points, and I'm happy to use it as the best bet for the time\nbeing.  A slightly different angle would be another alien lifeform, a\nsymbiotic relationship that gives the bestial vampire a brain, and the\nbrainy symbiot a food-supply and living platform--not that there is any\nsuggestion of this, I think it is just Vance's Durdane bleeding over by\nassociation.\n\nOn the \"Wolfe shelf\" of tricks, we have all sorts of things to use without\nanything radically new: alzabo; analeptic alzabo; chem-bio identity\nconfusion from trading parts; the dopey Shadow Children; etc.\n\n=mantis=\n\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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