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  "thread": {
    "id": 805,
    "subject": "Digest whorl.v010.n097",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2000-04-04T16:51:32+00:00",
    "last": "2000-04-04T16:51:32+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<whorl-v0010-0297@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Mark C. Andersen",
        "address": "manderse at nmsu.edu"
      },
      "date": "2000-04-04T16:51:32+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) RE: Digest whorl.v010.n097",
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          "text": "--------------- MESSAGE whorl.v010.n097.5 ---------------\n\nFrom: \"Alice Turner\" <akt at attglobal.net>\nSubject: Re: Digest whorl.v010.n096\nDate: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 21:31:10 -0400\nMIME-Version: 1.0\nContent-Type: text/plain;\n\tcharset=\"Windows-1252\"\nContent-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\nReferences: <200004031910.MAA26421 at lists1.best.com>\n\nRostrum said:"
        },
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          "depth": 2,
          "text": "On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Timothy Reilly quoted Alice:"
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          "depth": 3,
          "text": "who is working for whom. >It's fascinating. And one single person \n(not a\ngod) puts the whole unwieldy structure in motion. I won't tell you \nwho that\nis, but you can >figure it out by keeping track of motivations and\nopportunities.\n\nAlice, please do tell all.  I'm not up to working it out myself, and \nas I\nsaid I don't intend to try in future.  Same for you Patrick."
        },
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          "text": "I agree.  If you've got a conspiracy theory, let's hear it so we can \nargue\nabout it.  Somehow I doubt you've found an uncontroversially \"right\"\ninterpretation that we'd all come to if we only read more carefully."
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          "text": "Boys, boys,\n\nI'm not going to do your homework for you! Honestly, it's not that hard \nto figure out, thinking from back to front. And figuring it out makes the \nseries fun. Ask yourself some sensible political questions.\n\n1) Who stands to gain by a civilian insurrection or civil war? (No fair \nanswering \"the populace\" or some such; at the start of the campaign Silk is \nunknown to most of the populace.)\n\n2) Why choose Silk as candidate for calde? (Arbitrary, to a degree \nperhaps, but there are good reasons for it.)\n\n3) Who is in a position to put a campaign to unseat the Ayuntitmento in \nmotion? (This person or party must know Silk and be able to influence him, \nmust have the wherewithal--money and aides--to physically start a \n\"populist\" campaign, must also have access to and information about the "
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          "text": "Ayuntiamento, as well as the abovemenetioned motive.)"
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          "text": "4) How is that campaign implemented? (Whoo-hoo, let me count the \nways...well, actually, I'll let you count them.)\n\n5) How does that campaign run out of control? (Can't foresee everything, \ncan we, especially when we have unpredictable gods lurching in and out, \ndoing odd things?)\n\nAt any rate, nothing is completely predictable, but there's some pretty \ntight planning here.\n\n;-) -alga"
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          "text": "I've always had a suspicion that Quetzal instigated the rebellion, probably \nwith the express\ngoal of getting the Cargo out of the hold and onto Green, where they can be \nof more use\nto his kind. Silk is a logical candidate for calde because he's all about \ncarrying out the Plan of\n\nDr. Mark C. Andersen, Department of Fishery and Wildlife Sciences\nNew Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003-0003\nvoice:(505) 646-8034\t\t\tFAX:  (505) 646-1281\nmanderse at nmsu.edu, http://leopold.nmsu.edu/manderse/markhome.htm\n\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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