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  "export": {
    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/1115",
    "note": "Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it.  Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.",
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  "archive": "urth",
  "thread": {
    "id": 1115,
    "subject": "Digest urth.v019.n004",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1998-09-28T05:52:40+00:00",
    "last": "1998-10-01T01:53:45+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0019-0026@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jay Lake",
        "address": "jlake at jlake.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-09-28T05:52:40+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: Digest urth.v019.n004",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Having been lurking on the digest, I must mention something..."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "For a long time my favorite explanation for the events that transpire in\n\"Forlesen\" was provided by the undertaker-type character at the story's\nend--namely, that Emanuel Forlesen has been \"revived by unseen aliens who,\nlanding on the Earth eons after the death of the last man, have sought to\nre-create the life of the twentieth century.\" Kind of GW's version of THE\nEINSTEIN INTERSECTION, so-to-speak, with Dilbert as Lobey."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I have actually thought for many years that Delany's 'The Einstein\nIntersection' and 'Fifth Head of Cerebrus' were in so close a parallel as to\nbe eerie. To me, they are almost the same book as written by two authors. I\nbelieve that I base this feeling primarily on the fact that both books are\nmasterworks in the art of storytelling by misdirection, both are about\nseverely displaced/resurrected cultures, and both are (nominally) about\nhumans in stressful, regressed settings.\n\nBTW, I am reading BOTNS aloud to my wife, a chapter per evening, which is\ndoing amazing things for my own perceptions. We are keeping the excellent\n'Lexicon Urthus' on the night stand for quick reference (although I won't\nlet her see the entries until we're done -- no spoilers!). So I have come to\nrealize a fundamental question about the book:\n\nHow big is that freaking sabertache anyway?\n\nJay Lake\nAustin, Texas"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0019-0031@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "CRCulver",
        "address": "crculver at aol.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-10-01T01:53:45+00:00",
      "subject": "Re:  (urth) Re: Digest urth.v019.n004",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0019-0026@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
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          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Jay Lake said:\n<How big is that freaking sabertache anyway?>\n\nI don't know, but if it wasn't so anachronistic and out-of-fashion, I'd have\nalready bought or made one. Those things are neat.\n\nChristopher R. Culver <crculver at aol.com>\nhttp://members.aol.com/crculver/index.html\n------------------------------------------------"
        }
      ]
    }
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