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  "thread": {
    "id": 1415,
    "subject": "The jungle scene",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1999-03-04T09:20:39+00:00",
    "last": "1999-03-04T09:20:39+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0024-0041@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Craig.Christensen",
        "address": "craig.christensen at lawson.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-03-04T09:20:39+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) The jungle scene",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "John Bishop said:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "I think all or most of the little asides are a reference\nto something; the airplane is a clue which I can't decipher,"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I always felt that this scene is a tribute to the genre of pulp adventure,\nrather than a specific reference to a historical event.  The plane, I\nthought was a device to show that the characters have been moved both in\nspace, as in the desert garden, and now in time, too.  A prop plane is\njarringly incongruous in the glassed-in dome of the Gardens and for me\ninvoked the Tarzan movies of the 50's and King Solomon's Mines.\n\nLater, when I read The Last Thrilling Wonder Story and The Island of Doctor\nDeath, I was reminded of the jungle scene.  All three are, at least in\npart, an homage to a genre.\n\nCraig"
        }
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