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  "export": {
    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/1206",
    "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": 1206,
    "subject": "Digest urth.v019.n025",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-10-18T16:59:29+00:00",
    "last": "1998-10-18T16:59:29+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0020-0057@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alice Turner",
        "address": "al at interport.net"
      },
      "date": "1998-10-18T16:59:29+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: Digest urth.v019.n025",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "A megatherium speaks (I believe that is what Mr. Borski invoked, though he\nspelled it wrong):"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Anybody have any notions how Terminus Est came into the possession of\nPalaemon? The sword, after all, is no mere carnificial sword, but a\nvaluable weapon, owing to its smithing by Jovinian (Agilus claims it's\nworth a villa). But Palaemon is a mere torturer and the guild itself\nappears to be in rather dire finances;"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Thoughts, opinions, conjectures? (I'll spare you mine, not wanting to incur\nthe ire of this list's megatherians.)"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I have always taken Palaemon's slip in Shadow XIII--asked where Thrax is, he\nsays \"Down Gyoll. Near the sea,\" when in fact it is in the opposite\ndirection--to mean that he has something of a past, that he may have been\nexiled from the guild to that place for something similar in his youth, and\nthat he made it up with the help of a senior advocate, as he hopes Sev will.\nIf that is so, perhaps he acquired the sword, which is certainly suitable\nfor a journeyman torturer, in somewhat the same way. I'd like to think so,\nanyway.\n\n-alga"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}