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  "thread": {
    "id": 1340,
    "subject": "Digest urth.v022.n029",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "1999-01-25T03:14:18+00:00",
    "last": "1999-01-25T03:14:18+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0023-0010@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David Duffy",
        "address": "davidd at qimr.edu.au"
      },
      "date": "1999-01-25T03:14:18+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: Digest urth.v022.n029",
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          "text": "On Sun, 24 Jan 1999 CRCulver at aol.com wrote:\n\nI'm re-reading PEACE, and this time I am approaching it with the knowledge\nthat Weer is dead. I am puzzled, however, by the other characters of the book\nin the office of Dr. Van Ness in the novel's early pages. I do not know\nwhether these characters are recreations out of Weer's memory, or perhaps\nfellow deceased persons awaked by the storm which resurrected Weer."
        },
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          "text": "I think they are characters in a dream, based on those waiting in one or\nmore actual visits to the doctor.  WRT dreams and rooms, Lessingham in\n_The Worm Orouboros_ has the room (“name) he decides to spend the night in\nwhen he wants a dream from the gates of horn rather than ivory (or is that\nvv” -- cf Weer and the Persian room). \n\nDavid Duffy."
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