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  "thread": {
    "id": 731,
    "subject": "Space Monkeys?",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1999-11-16T23:12:26+00:00",
    "last": "1999-11-16T23:12:26+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0010-0184@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "William H. Ansley",
        "address": "wansley at warwick.net"
      },
      "date": "1999-11-16T23:12:26+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Space Monkeys?",
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          "text": "\"Alice Turner\" <akt at attglobal.net> wrote:\n2. There have been a lot of guesses about \"the secret of the inhumi,\" and\nthe front-runner for a while was that it was simply that they took on (or\ncould take on) aspects of the prey along with the blood; when they\nencountered a sentient race for the first time, it revolutionized them.\nAnother conjecture has to do with their obviously being able to survive a\nlong time without sustenance in a mummified state. But later thinking is\nthat it's more complicated than that--it's a secret that if known could\ndestroy them--and that Wolfe just hasn't given it to us even in clue form\nyet."
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          "text": "Alga,\n\nWait a minute! The inhumi can survive \"mummified\" for long periods of time,\nthey depend on humans for sustenance and they take on human\ncharacteristics*.\n\nThese guys aren't evil, they're just really big Sea Monkeys!\n\n(For those of you who don't have any idea what I'm talking about, please\nignore me. I'll probably stop if you ignore me.)\n\nWilliam Ansley\n\n*I'm basing this on the picture on the Sea Monkey box.\n\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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