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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/1359",
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  "thread": {
    "id": 1359,
    "subject": "Call me Severian",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1999-02-05T08:53:30+00:00",
    "last": "1999-02-05T11:10:25+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0023-0048@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Peter Stephenson",
        "address": "pws at ibmth.df.unipi.it"
      },
      "date": "1999-02-05T11:10:25+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Call me Severian",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Has anyone noticed the strange resemblance between the following?  Are\nthey perhaps related?  (If anyone has, I should just look back in the\narchive for the same subject line, since it's the obvious one.  But I\nhaven't.)\n\n\t\t\t\t-----\n       Grand Championship for the Title `Great American Novel'\n\t\t\t\t ---\n\t\t\t    The Contenders\n\n  \t\t Moby Dick             \t   The Book of the New Sun\n  \t      Melville, Herman\t\t         Wolfe, Gene\n\nLocation:     C3, `The Spouter Inn', f.    I.xv, `Baldanders'\n\nProtagonist:  One Ishmael                  Severian of the Torturers\n\nPlot:         I. needs a room for the      S. needs a room for the\n\t      night, finds inn, tries\t   night, finds inn, tries\n\t      to sleep on bench, is \t   to sleep in chair, is\n\t      offered bed to share with\t   offered bed to share with\n\t      unknown companion.       \t   unknown companion.\n\nBedfellow:    One Queequeg     \t       \t   Goodman Baldanders (+ friend)\n\nBedfellow's   Andes, apparently            The mountain range formerly\nProvenance \t\t\t\t   known as Andes\n\nOther Items   One (1) Tomahawk \t       \t   One (1) Carneficial Sword\nin Bed:\n\nHead:         Q. collects and sells        S. makes money as vertebral\n              human heads.  \t   \t   partitionist; all and sundry\n\t\t\t    \t   \t   dreaming of severed heads.\n\nMatters\t      `Thar she blows!'            S. dreams of falling into sea\nArising:\t\t    \t       \t   and seeing `great shapes ---\n       \t       \t       \t       \t       \t   things hundreds of times larger\n\t\t\t    \t\t   than a man'.\n\nPertinent     Leviathan                    Abaia\nMythical\nCreatures:\n\nStill to      `WHALING VOYAGE BY ONE       Journey into exile by S.\nCome:\t\t     ISHMAEL'\n\nFuture        One Queequeg                 Goodman Baldanders (+ friend)\nTravelling\nCompanions:\n\n\ncorncrake"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0023-0049@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Straight",
        "address": "straight at email.unc.edu"
      },
      "date": "1999-02-05T08:53:30+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Call me Severian",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0023-0048@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Peter Stephenson wrote:\nHas anyone noticed the strange resemblance between the following?  Are\nthey perhaps related?  (If anyone has, I should just look back in the\narchive for the same subject line, since it's the obvious one.  But I\nhaven't.)\n  \t\t Moby Dick             \t   The Book of the New Sun"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Plot:         I. needs a room for the      S. needs a room for the\n\t      night, finds inn, tries\t   night, finds inn, tries\n\t      to sleep on bench, is \t   to sleep in chair, is\n\t      offered bed to share with\t   offered bed to share with\n\t      unknown companion.       \t   unknown companion.\n\nBedfellow:    One Queequeg     \t       \t   Goodman Baldanders (+ friend)"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Now that you mention it, this scene did remind me when I read it of Moby\nDick, at least as far as sharing a bed with a weirdo, but I'd forgotten\nabout it.  I didn't notice all the other parallels.\n\nIn other words, \"me too.\"\n\n-Rostrum"
        }
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