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  "thread": {
    "id": 1224,
    "subject": "Wolfe's Swords",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-10-22T17:27:31+00:00",
    "last": "1998-10-22T17:27:31+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0020-0097@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Straight",
        "address": "straight at email.unc.edu"
      },
      "date": "1998-10-22T17:27:31+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Wolfe's Swords",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Mark Millman wrote:\nThe sword, of course, carries better symbolic freight\nfor Wolfe's purposes, even leaving aside the South\nAmerican (thus Spanish) cultural heritage of the\nCommonwealth."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Also, Wolfe just loves magic or otherwise nifty swords.  Can we name them\nall?\n\nTerminus Est\nSilk's Azoth\nSilk's walking stick\nLatro's magic sword\nWeer's penknife (as Chesterton says, a penknife is more romantic than a\n sword, because it is a secret sword)\nExcalibur in Castleview\nDoesn't Wat have some kind of special sword in \"A Devil in the Forest\"?\n\n-Rostrum"
        }
      ]
    }
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