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  "thread": {
    "id": 1365,
    "subject": "Digest urth.v022.n040",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1999-02-10T00:41:25+00:00",
    "last": "1999-02-10T00:41:25+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0023-0059@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Kieran Mullen",
        "address": "kieran at brigit.nhn.ou.edu"
      },
      "date": "1999-02-10T00:41:25+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re:  Digest urth.v022.n040",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "  For a long time more no cars stopped. Little Tib thought about a cattle\ntruck stopping and told God he would ride with the cattle. He thought about\na garbage truck stopping, and told God he would ride on top of the garbage.\nThen he heard something old coming down the road. It rattled, and the\nengine made a strange, high-pitched noise an engine should not make. \"Looks\nlike a old school bus,\" Nitty said. \"But look at those pictures on the\nside.\"\n  \"It's stopping,\" Mr. Parker said, and then Little Tib could hear the\nsound the doors made opening.\n-----------------"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "This is what I want help with: I am sure that Little Tib thinking about\nriding on a cattle truck and then a garbage truck and then having a vehicle\nstop for him is a reference to something that I should know, but I can't\nbring anything definite to mind."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "If anyone can enlighten me here, I would be grateful."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "William Ansley"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "   Well, it's got the standard storytelling structure-of-three.  The first\nthing it made me think of was the Prodigal Son, who was willing to eat the\ngarbage, the food of the ... oops.  Not cattle, but pigs.  It doesn't fit\nthe Good Samaritan story either (three people passing by).  \n\n            Kieran Mullen"
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