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  "thread": {
    "id": 108,
    "subject": "Digest urth.v002.n024",
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    "first": "1997-07-20T12:31:13+00:00",
    "last": "1997-07-20T12:31:13+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0003-0171@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Matthew Freestone",
        "address": "matthew at matthewf.demon.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "1997-07-20T12:31:13+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: Digest urth.v002.n024",
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          "text": "Mantis,"
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          "text": "\"there is a long, stony island which used, at about the time\nI imagined myself visiting Dr. Van Ness, a [sic] harbor a hermit\ncalled Crazy Pete.\"\n\nHeh-heh.  That picnic takes place in 1915 (according to Schuyler;\nthose who believe Dan French [a character in PEACE who provides\none of the few year date anchors] might put it at 1925),\nforty-nine years before our narrator Pete becomes a hermit on the\nisland."
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          "text": "But the point here is that Weer is anchoring the hermit to his imagined\nvisits to Dr Van Ness, not to the picnic. And as Weer puts it, \"I\nconsult Dr Black as a boy (though with a stroke), but Dr Van Ness as a\nman\". \nDuring their consultation, Van Ness opines that Weer is \"about sixty\",\nwhich fits in a whole lot better with the dates in Changeling.\n--                              II         |\\      _,,,---,,_\nMatt Freestone                  II    zzz. /,`.-'`'    -.  ;-;;,_.\nmatthew at matthewf.demon.co.uk    II        |,4-  ) )-,_. ,\\ (  `'-'\nwww.matthewf.demon.co.uk/       II       '---''(_/--'  `-'\\_)"
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