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    "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": 1828,
    "subject": "Tintin?",
    "messages": 4,
    "voices": 3,
    "first": "1999-10-08T11:34:00+00:00",
    "last": "1999-10-12T11:02:20+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0189@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alex David Groce",
        "address": "alex_groce at gs246.sp.cs.cmu.edu"
      },
      "date": "1999-10-08T13:10:37+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Tintin?",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "This is purely coincidental, I'm sure, but I just noticed the resemblance\nbetween the Miracle of Apu Punchau and the means by which Tintin, Captain\nHaddock and Professor Calculus are saved in Herge's PRISONERS OF THE SUN.  \nIncidentally, the previous adventure to the PRISONERS OF THE SUN is THE SECRET\nOF THE UNICORN/RED RACKHAM'S TREASURE, concerning the treasure of the ship\nUnicorn, hidden under St. John's Cross.  The chapter before Apu Punchau in\nURTH ends with a mention of two constellations:  the Unicorn and the Cross.\n\n\n\"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.\" John 8:32"
        },
        {
          "kind": "sig",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Alex David Groce (agroce+ at cs.cmu.edu)\nPh.D. Student, Carnegie Mellon University - Computer Science Department\n8112 Wean Hall (412)-268-3066\nhttp://www.cs.cmu.edu/~agroce"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0190@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Nicholas Gevers",
        "address": "vermoulian at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-10-08T11:34:00+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Tintin?",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0028-0189@digest.urth.net>",
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      "blocks": [
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          "text": "Allegedly, Columbus pulled off the eclipse trick on\nthe inhabitants of Jamaica in 1504--a fact that may\nhave influenced both Herge and Wolfe in their\nportrayals of neo-Inca folk being gulled in this way."
        },
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "--- Alex David Groce <Alex_Groce at gs246.sp.cs.cmu.edu>\nwrote:\n\nThis is purely coincidental, I'm sure, but I just\nnoticed the resemblance\nbetween the Miracle of Apu Punchau and the means by\nwhich Tintin, Captain\nHaddock and Professor Calculus are saved in Herge's\nPRISONERS OF THE SUN.  \nIncidentally, the previous adventure to the\nPRISONERS OF THE SUN is THE SECRET\nOF THE UNICORN/RED RACKHAM'S TREASURE, concerning\nthe treasure of the ship\nUnicorn, hidden under St. John's Cross.  The chapter\nbefore Apu Punchau in\nURTH ends with a mention of two constellations:  the\nUnicorn and the Cross.\n\n\n\"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall\nmake you free.\" John 8:32\n--\nAlex David Groce (agroce+ at cs.cmu.edu)\nPh.D. Student, Carnegie Mellon University - Computer\nScience Department\n8112 Wean Hall (412)-268-3066\nhttp://www.cs.cmu.edu/~agroce\n\nthe New Sun and other works"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0193@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Mitchell A. Bailey",
        "address": "mab at lindau.net"
      },
      "date": "1999-10-09T13:32:37+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Tintin?",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0028-0190@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "Nicholas Gevers wrote:\n\nAllegedly, Columbus pulled off the eclipse trick on\nthe inhabitants of Jamaica in 1504--a fact that may\nhave influenced both Herge and Wolfe in their\nportrayals of neo-Inca folk being gulled in this way."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "...\n\nWasn't there an \"eclipse trick\" featured in the 1931 movie \"A\nConnecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court\" with Will Rogers in the title\nrole? (it wasn't in Samuel Clemens' book)"
        }
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    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0199@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Mitchell A. Bailey",
        "address": "mab at lindau.net"
      },
      "date": "1999-10-12T11:02:20+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Tintin?",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0028-0193@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "Mitchell A. Bailey wrote:\n..."
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          "text": "Wasn't there an \"eclipse trick\" featured in the 1931 movie \"A\nConnecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court\" with Will Rogers in the title\nrole? (it wasn't in Samuel Clemens' book)"
        },
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          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "Whoops, my mistake, it WAS in the book, near the beginning, in a chapter\nentitled \"The Eclipse\", at that!\n\nBTW, I noticed that among the protagonists initial impressions of\nCamelot, as he was brought as a prisoner, was a number of \"windowless\"\nhouses. Shades of Thrax!"
        }
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