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  "archive": "urth",
  "thread": {
    "id": 1708,
    "subject": "puzzles",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1999-07-08T14:30:35+00:00",
    "last": "1999-07-08T14:30:35+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0027-0132@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "John Regehr",
        "address": "jdr8d at cs.virginia.edu"
      },
      "date": "1999-07-08T14:30:35+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) puzzles",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "I recently started reading Georges Perec's _Life, A User's Manual_.  This\nappears in the preamble:\n\nFrom this, one can make a deduction which is quite certainly the ultimate\ntruth of jigsaw puzzles: despite appearances, puzzling is not a solitary\ngame: every move the puzzler makes, the puzzle-maker has made before;\nevery piece the puzzler picks up, and picks up again, and studies and\nstrokes, every combination he tries, and tries a second time, every\nblunder and every insight, each hope and each discouragement have all been\ndesigned, calculated, and decided by the other.\n\nJohn"
        }
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    }
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