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  "thread": {
    "id": 164,
    "subject": "Future reading group",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1997-08-19T09:42:02+00:00",
    "last": "1997-08-19T16:06:30+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0004-0250@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Patri10629",
        "address": "patri10629 at aol.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-08-19T09:42:02+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re:Future reading group",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "text": "In a message dated 8/19/97 3:40:56 AM, you wrote:\n\n<<\nBut what if, instead of starting new groups devoted to Simmons, C. Smith,\netc., we became a kind of reading forum (if that doesn't sound too\nbourgeois)? We're a self-selected group, we're obviously working pretty\nwell together, why don't we just throw it open for a while to a variety of\nliterary topics? The people who think they're not interested in Smith or\nSimmons could either lurk for a while or get and read the books and pitch\nin. A single book could be considered. It seems to me, for instance, that\nmost Wolfeans would get a thrill from A.S. Byatt's Possession and Peter\nHoeg's Smilla's Sense of Snow, puzzle books  with a strong sense of genre,\nbut published in the mainstream. \n\n-alga->>\n\n\nSounds cool to me.\n\nPatrick"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0004-0251@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Kieran Cleary",
        "address": "kierannwn at tinet.ie"
      },
      "date": "1997-08-19T16:06:30+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Re:Future reading group",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0004-0250@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "Sounds good to me too. Wouldn't mind exhuming a little more Crowley.\n\nlasrach\n\nKieran Cleary\nNorth West Labs\nFinisklin Industrial Estate, Sligo\n\nTel: +353 71 69441\nFax: +353 71 69451\nemail: kierannwn at tinet.ie"
        }
      ]
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