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  "archive": "whorl",
  "thread": {
    "id": 780,
    "subject": "Mucor question",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 3,
    "first": "2000-02-10T17:50:57+00:00",
    "last": "2000-02-10T19:19:49+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0010-0261@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dennis G. Berdanis",
        "address": "endymion9 at mindspring.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-02-10T17:50:57+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Mucor question",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Just one simple question really.  Why does Mucor seem to be the only one of\nher *kind*?  I know she was a product of genetic manipulation gone awry, but\neven if it was an accident, Blood thought it was a genetic talent he could\nuse.  Why wouldn't anyone else intentionally try to create another Mucor for\ntheir use?\n\n\nDennis/Endy\n\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0010-0262@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jack Lyons",
        "address": "revjack at radix.net"
      },
      "date": "2000-02-10T19:16:20+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl) Mucor question",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0010-0261@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Just one simple question really.  Why does Mucor seem to be the only one of\nher *kind*?  I know she was a product of genetic manipulation gone awry,\nbut\neven if it was an accident, Blood thought it was a genetic talent he could\nuse.  Why wouldn't anyone else intentionally try to create another Mucor\nfor\ntheir use?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "Perhaps because the experiment demonstrated that while one could manipulate\nthe physical characteristics of a person, the emotional, intellectual and\nspiritual aspects of that person proved to be beyond the control of the\nscalpel and the test tube. Mucor may be a lab rat, but I wouldn't consider\nher \"manageable\" - a trait that I assume her manipulators had in their\nproject requirements.\n\nI'm sure that someone can provide a theist metaphor for this. :)\n\nRJ"
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          "kind": "sig",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "revjack at radix.net\nstochasticgnosisthroughablativedissonance\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0010-0263@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jim Jordan",
        "address": "jbjordan at gnt.net"
      },
      "date": "2000-02-10T19:19:49+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl) Mucor question",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0010-0262@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
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          "depth": 2,
          "text": "At 07:16 PM 2/10/00 -0500, you wrote:\nJust one simple question really.  Why does Mucor seem to be the only one of\nher *kind*?  I know she was a product of genetic manipulation gone awry,\nbut\neven if it was an accident, Blood thought it was a genetic talent he could\nuse.  Why wouldn't anyone else intentionally try to create another Mucor\nfor\ntheir use?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "\tMaybe they have. Remember, we only see a very small town in a small part\nof Whorl. Lots of communities have doubtless raided the tanks. Clones of\nGene could write several hundred novels about other communities. Hey! Maybe\na SHARED WORLD series!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!\n\tSorry. \n\tI apologize. \n\tDon't hit me. \n\tPlease. \n\tPlease don't hit me.\n\nNutria\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
        }
      ]
    }
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