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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/whorl/719",
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  "thread": {
    "id": 719,
    "subject": "SEVERIAN AT THE PIT?",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1999-11-10T19:14:34+00:00",
    "last": "1999-11-10T19:14:34+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0010-0163@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Bill Carmichael",
        "address": "bcarmichael1 at home.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-11-10T19:14:34+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) SEVERIAN AT THE PIT?",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I agree with Tom Urash when he says:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": " I keep telling myself  this isn't plausible -  but, am I the only one\ngetting a creepy feeling reading the above passage and remembering how\nSeverian almost inevitably used the claw by holding it to the forehead?"
        },
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          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "I strongly concur, on both points! (a) it seems very implausible, and (b) the similarity is striking, to say the least.  I read OBW in three days, and apparently not carefully enough, because until the quote Tom that refers to was cited in a previous message on this list, I'd forgotten (or never noticed) that this incident had even occurred.  To me it seems very much in keeping with Wolfe's style to drop a hint like this in the midst of things.  \"Like this\" here meaning painfully obvious only after somebody else has pointed out.\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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