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  "thread": {
    "id": 1780,
    "subject": "Watchmen [Digest urth.v028.n034]",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1999-09-15T17:58:10+00:00",
    "last": "1999-09-15T17:58:10+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0113@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "John Bishop",
        "address": "jbishop at blkbrd.zko.dec.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-09-15T17:58:10+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: Watchmen [Digest urth.v028.n034]",
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      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "I had a different impression than Alex; Veidt saw a war coming\n(and we readers are made to see the same, so he is correct),\nand used a drastic but relatively cheap method to stop it.\n\nI liked the character: so many superheros are just beefcake,\nand this guy was not only strong but smart, and had thought\nlong and hard about this issue; the part I liked least was \nthe killing of the servants and the destruction of his\n\"Fortress of Solitude\"-analog.  But it was necessary.\n\nDoes that make him evil?  I don't know; my emotional reaction\nis yes, he shouldn't kill others to save many more (_fiat_\n_justica,_ruat_coeleum_, \"do justice even if the heavens fall\"\nif I have the Latin right), but perhaps megadeath has a quality\nall its own.\n\nDoes it make a difference that Veidt knew what was going to happen,\nbut Severian can't really picture it?\n\nPlus I loved the tweaks to the conventions of comics: he tells\nthe nominal heros his plan, but they can't do anything, 'cause\nits too late.\n\n\t-John Bishop"
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