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  "export": {
    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/1162",
    "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": 1162,
    "subject": "The Palindromes, Ma & Pa",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1998-10-13T01:43:54+00:00",
    "last": "1998-10-13T23:49:58+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0019-0097@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Robert Borski",
        "address": "rborski at coredcs.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-10-13T01:43:54+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) The Palindromes, Ma & Pa",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "This is the last of the major genealogical timeloop inversions of New Sun.\n\nFather Inire's name derives from Latin and means \"to begin, to enter.\" Like\nmany of the other incestuously involved couples of Urth (Agia, Agilus; Sev,\nDorcas;Sev, Valeria), he too is sleeping with a blood relative--his sister,\nthe Cumaean.\n\nAnd who are their parents? (Tony Ellis came very close to figuring this\nout). \n\nThey're Severian and Apheta (whose name means \"starting place\").\n\nNow somebody dare tell me Gene Wolfe does not have one wicked sense of\nhumor!\n\nRobert Borski  "
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0019-0108@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "William H. Ansley",
        "address": "wansley at warwick.net"
      },
      "date": "1998-10-13T23:49:58+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) The Palindromes, Ma & Pa",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0019-0097@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Now somebody dare tell me Gene Wolfe does not have one wicked sense of\nhumor!\n\nRobert Borski"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Well, *somebody* has a wicked sense of humor, anyway.\n\nWilliam Ansley"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}