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  "archive": "whorl",
  "thread": {
    "id": 727,
    "subject": "Seawrack",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1999-11-16T10:10:28+00:00",
    "last": "1999-11-16T10:10:28+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0010-0178@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alice Turner",
        "address": "akt at attglobal.net"
      },
      "date": "1999-11-16T10:10:28+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Seawrack",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "From: \"William H. Ansley\"\nOK, all of you people who think Wolfe always has a reason for everything\nhe\nwrites (you know who you are!), what is the reason for Seawrack's missing\nright arm?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "[snip]"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Is Seawrack really missing an arm or is Horn being mislead somehow?\n(\"Prepare for mind control!\" -Evil, in the film _Time Bandits_.)"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "From: Alex David Groce\n At the end of OBW, I pity Seawrack, and think no ill of her,\nbut I have a sneaking suspicion that the hints dropped and Krait's evident\ndistrust of her may indicate that she's less innocent and good than she\nseems."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I'm in this camp. To start with, Seawrack was a gift from a mysterious\nentity, and surely we've learned to beware of such gifts. Krait's suspicion\nis a real clue too--in his maunderings, Horn speaks of future deeds on Green\nwith a real love for Krait, but I don't recall anything of the sort re\nSeawrack. Now that Wm. points it out, I too find that arm thing odd, though\nI do think it's really missing. (Perhaps she can grow it back?) Especially\nsince native fauna all seem to have multiple limbs.\n\n-alga\n\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
        }
      ]
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