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  "thread": {
    "id": 1442,
    "subject": "Oz is Heaven?",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1999-03-19T14:18:17+00:00",
    "last": "1999-03-24T15:44:46+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0024-0076@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David_Lebling",
        "address": "david_lebling at avid.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-03-19T14:18:17+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Oz is Heaven?",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Gosh, if I thought I had a chance of going to Oz when I died, I'd try to\nbe\na better person...."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "alga,\n\nRead _Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West_, by\nGregory Maguire, and you may think again about that wish...\n\nI recommend this book highly!\n\n     -- Dave Lebling\n     (aka vizcacha)"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0024-0089@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "William H. Ansley",
        "address": "wansley at warwick.net"
      },
      "date": "1999-03-24T15:44:46+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Oz is Heaven?",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0024-0076@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Gosh, if I thought I had a chance of going to Oz when I died, I'd try to\nbe\na better person...."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "alga,\n\nRead _Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West_, by\nGregory Maguire, and you may think again about that wish...\n\nI recommend this book highly!\n\n    -- Dave Lebling\n    (aka vizcacha)"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I have seen this book referred to before, perhaps on this list, and was\nintrigued by the idea. This recent mention, coupled with my recent\nre-reading of several Oz books prompted me to read it.\n\nAlthough it is an interesting book and Gregory Maguire reveals a very\nthorough knowledge of the Oz books as well as the movie (undoubtedly more\nthorough than mine), I cannot second vizcacha's recommendation. Even if I\nliked the book I would still have to say that it is silly to try to use it\nas a means of changing anyone's opinion about the desirability of visiting\nOz. Maguire has used elements of Baum's Oz but has so altered and\nrearranged them that he has come up with an entirely different (and\nthoroughly unpleasant) place. I think that Baum, as the originator of Oz,\nshould be used as the authority on the subject, not some guy who is using\nthe Wicked Witch of the West as a convenient metaphor for Evil.\n(Personally, I don't think Oz qualifies as heaven even if you do just stick\nto Baum's books.)\n\nI just removed a long paragraph I wrote about why I don't like this book,\nbecause this is too long for an off-topic message already. I'll just say\nthat I am glad I got the book from a library instead of buying it.\n\nWilliam Ansley"
        }
      ]
    }
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