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  "thread": {
    "id": 83,
    "subject": "The writing on the walls; Mucor; Timeline",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "1997-02-10T10:00:33+00:00",
    "last": "1997-02-10T10:00:33+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0002-0126@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David_Lebling",
        "address": "david_lebling at avid.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-02-10T10:00:33+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) The writing on the walls; Mucor; Timeline",
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          "text": "mantis,\n\nI've reread the segment you referenced [I, 217], and now I see your\npoint.  For those who don't have the books directly at hand, Quetzal's\nreference to Silk's name being written five floors up almost certainly\nmeans the writing Silk did himself as part of his attempt to cure\nTeasel, who had been bitten by an inhumu.  This also gives a\nsemi-plausible explanation for why Quetzal \"went wide\" when he saw the\nname; the purpose of the name (Pike's was included as well) was to ward\noff the devil who had bitten her.\n\nThis was good detective work, mantis.\n\nOn the other hand, as you predicted, even your additional reference\ndoesn't convince me of your thesis about Mucor is the literal child of\nMolpe, much less of Heirax.  As Freud said, \"sometimes a cigar is just a\ncigar.\"  Besides, even if it was what Silk meant (on even the third\nlevel), we have to remember that sometimes he is dead wrong.\n\nOn the subject of the ages of the godlets, I think the reference to\nScylla being \"a few years from womanhood\" is ambiguous.  Does this mean\n\"a few years from menarche\" or does it mean \"a few years from\nmarriageable age\"?  I.e., is she about 11 or about 16 or 17?  I think\nthe latter.  This makes the children even younger, which (I think)\nbolsters my argument that the Pas/Typhon timeline is implausably short.\n\nHowever, I haven't read your _Lexicon_ supplement 2, so I will reserve\njudgement.  You hint in your message that Urth is the backwater of the\nsolar system, which I find a provocative position.  One then envisions\nTyphon's conquest of Urth being followed by brainwashing and deportation\nof those who resisted; perhaps even on religious grounds.\n\nAs further timeline evidence, I point to Marble's memory of how servants\n(chems) are dressed: like twentieth century French maids.  Ninety-nine\nthousand years in the future?  The mind boggles.\n\n     Dave\n\nps:  When I get something wrong, don't assume malice, assume ignorance!\n\nQuestions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com"
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