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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/1622",
    "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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  "thread": {
    "id": 1622,
    "subject": "Carry on Critics",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 3,
    "first": "1999-05-08T16:35:44+00:00",
    "last": "1999-05-10T08:38:20+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0026-0096@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Nicholas Gevers",
        "address": "potto at webmail.co.za"
      },
      "date": "1999-05-08T16:35:44+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Carry on Critics",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Congratulations to Nigel Price: very interesting and even graceful\ninput on the religious issue. A welcome change from this increasingly\nrusty topic of the iron men; shouldn't we move on to other threads,\nlike whether Severian's guild cloak is made from tussah, chenille, or\nsilk?\nOn casting for THE BOOK OF THE NEW SUN: Carry On is all very well, but\nwhy not look for talent closer to home? With hope that I avoid\ninflicting any personal injury, I'd like to suggest the following\ncasting, based on known critical attributes of the individuals\nconcerned:\nSEVERIAN = Michael Andre-Driussi\nTHECLA = Joan Gordon\nJUTURNA = Alice K. Turner\nMASTER ULTAN = Jonathan Laidlow\nODILO = Nigel Price (because of the \"dull video\")\nBALDANDERS = Ori Kowarsky\nDR. TALOS = Robert Borski\nFATHER INIRE = Damien Broderick (lurking)\nCANOG = Patrick O'Leary\nMASTER ASH = Nick Gevers\nEREBUS = Peter Wright\nTZADKIEL = Gene Wolfe\nAny additions?\n//--------------------------------------\nNicholas Gevers\npotto at webmail.co.za"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0026-0098@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "William H. Ansley",
        "address": "wansley at warwick.net"
      },
      "date": "1999-05-08T23:37:14+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Carry on Critics",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0026-0096@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "SEVERIAN = Michael Andre-Driussi\nTHECLA = Joan Gordon\nJUTURNA = Alice K. Turner\nMASTER ULTAN = Jonathan Laidlow\nODILO = Nigel Price (because of the \"dull video\")\nBALDANDERS = Ori Kowarsky\nDR. TALOS = Robert Borski\nFATHER INIRE = Damien Broderick (lurking)\nCANOG = Patrick O'Leary\nMASTER ASH = Nick Gevers\nEREBUS = Peter Wright\nTZADKIEL = Gene Wolfe\nAny additions?"
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          "text": "I won't comment on any of the suggestions above; I don't know anyone well\nenough to know who's going to be pleased or disgruntled.\n\nNow who could I be? Hmmmm... Hethor. Babbling fool, deadly assasin. Well,\nI've got the first part down cold, maybe I can fake the second part. No,\nhold on. I'll have to wait for the casting of _The Book of the Long Sun_.\nPatera Remora is just a babbling fool; I can be him!\n\nWilliam Ansley"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0026-0100@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Peter Stephenson",
        "address": "pws at ibmth.df.unipi.it"
      },
      "date": "1999-05-10T08:38:20+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Carry on Critics",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0026-0098@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
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          "text": "\"William H. Ansley\" wrote:\nNow who could I be? Hmmmm... Hethor."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "kn i play 2?\n\nI'd like to be Hildegrin, because Mr Badger in Wind in the Willows is one\nof my favourite fictional creations.  I've been wondering if it had it in\nhis mind when he wrote the Lake of Eternal Sleep scene --- lots of rushes\nand backwaters as well as badgers.\n\n(There's another for sports journalists, desperately trying to fill\npre-superbowl slots with idiotic questions.)\n\ncorncrake"
        }
      ]
    }
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