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  "thread": {
    "id": 1406,
    "subject": "RLS and KM",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1999-03-02T10:52:47+00:00",
    "last": "1999-03-02T10:52:47+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0024-0032@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Tony Ellis",
        "address": "tony.ellis at futurenet.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "1999-03-02T10:52:47+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) RLS and KM",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "John Bishop wrote:\nIs the \"Robert\" he meets in the jungle greenhouse Robert Louis\nStevenson?  Was there a \"Marie\" in Samoa with him?  I can't help\nbut think the couple we see is a reference."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Great idea, but... the couple see a plane (or what they interpret as a\nplane, it could be a flyer) passing over head. RLS died in 1894, long\nbefore the days of powered flight.\n\nBut you've got me wondering if Robert is supposed to be some other real\nperson."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "SBear wrote:\nAt 02:12 1999-03-02 -0600, Roy C. Lackey wrote:\n    I have carefully gone over the text and have a theory that covers all of\nthe major plot points in \"Kevin Malone\" -- I think. It doesn't require that\nI reveal any private, off-list confidences from Tony Ellis, so don't blame\nhim. In fact, this theory is very different from his. There is no way to\nexplain it without divulging parts of the plot, so be warned!\n..."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "   Well, it all fits. Anyone buying it?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Nope! Far too complicated. Tony's theory, which I worked out independently\nfollowing his original posting and even extended a little, is much simpler,\nscarier, and fits the story perfectly without requiring so many Malones to\nwork at the same house."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Seconded. I prefer Tony's theory  too <g>."
        }
      ]
    }
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