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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/1473",
    "note": "Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it.  Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.",
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  "archive": "urth",
  "thread": {
    "id": 1473,
    "subject": "Glyphs",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1999-04-01T22:34:41+00:00",
    "last": "1999-04-01T22:34:41+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0024-0131@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Roy C. Lackey",
        "address": "rclackey at stic.net"
      },
      "date": "1999-04-01T22:34:41+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Glyphs",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "William Ansley wrote:\nThis may not be reliable evidence of the letter shapes at all. Since Wolfe\n\"translated\" TBotNS from a strange future tongue he probably had to make an\nadjustment in this passage. For all we know the last two letters in the\nactual word Severian used (which Wolfe translated as 'last') looked\nentirely different. We could have had a hoop and a cup rather than a\nserpent and a sword, just to pick two more objects at random that can\nconceivably be thought to look like other letters in our alphabet. Which\nletters? I'll leave that as an exercise for you.<<"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "    While we're at it, these \"glyphs\" from \"The Tale of the Rose and the\nNightingale (And What Came of It)\":\n\n    \"...a bent object that might be a whip, a human leg and a foot, a\nshallow cup, and a crocodile.\"\n\nRoy"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
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