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  "thread": {
    "id": 97,
    "subject": "Urus is \"auroch\"",
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    "first": "1997-02-15T03:14:00+00:00",
    "last": "1997-02-15T03:14:00+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<whorl-v0003-0145@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "m.driussi",
        "address": "m.driussi at genie.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-02-15T03:14:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Urus is \"auroch\"",
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          "text": "Reply:  Item #0885661 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET#\n\nDave,\n\nRe: PANDORA, oh yeah.  And I keep meaning to write an essay on that\none, too.  (Maybe once I get this current thing out of the way?)\n\nRe: Urus-no-pus.  Not sure, but I think it means that he isn't a real\nprisoner; instead he's some form of spy skulking around in the\ntunnels.  But that is odd because: Auk knows him from Viron's crime\nscene and remembers him being sent to the pit (elaborate cover story?\nIf so, explains why they lowered him down rather than tossing him);\nif he got into the tunnels by any way other than the pit then he would\nbe in a better position to know a way out; if he =is= a lost spy, then\nhe certainly doesn't work for the Trivs, otherwise he would have used\nthat info with the Triv contact (Siyuf) he makes at Trotters.  And Mint\ngives him that lecture on how evil he is.  Makes a reader wonder, it does.\n\nRock,\n\n(Is that short for \"Rock Lobster\"? <g>)  Conspiracies certainly\nabound on the Whorl, that is for sure.  For example, the Lemuroid\nConspiracy seems to have been secretly infiltrated by a chem\nconspiracy; the church says there is no such thing as a \"black\nmechanic,\" and yet the one visible group that meets under that name\nseems to be largely made up of augurs (and sibyls, too?), and they\nprey upon chems for their amusement (often blasphemous, always\nunethical treatment of sentient creatures--very close to slavery);\nthe chems covet the prosthetic parts that some lucky bios have; etc.\n\nLike you, I wondered to alga that for all we know, Green is the\nlesser of two evils--maybe Blue is their prison planet.  She didn't\ngo for that.  Me, I don't know.  We'll just have to wait and see what\nthe Short Sun series brings to us (which is what alga said, too) . . .\nbut I've heard it is going to be a very challenging trilogy, so answers\nwill probably be as clear or cut and dry (\"clear cut\"?) as anything in\nTHE FIFTH HEAD OF CERBERUS.  (Or \"Silhouette,\" for those who have read\nthat Wolfe novella.)\n\n=mantis=\n\nQuestions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com"
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