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  "thread": {
    "id": 1852,
    "subject": "A funny thing happened on the way to the motto",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1999-10-25T23:47:42+00:00",
    "last": "1999-10-25T23:47:42+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0229@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "William H. Ansley",
        "address": "wansley at warwick.net"
      },
      "date": "1999-10-25T23:47:42+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) A funny thing happened on the way to the motto",
      "in_reply_to": null,
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          "kind": "quote",
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          "text": "William Ansley writes:\n<<This invites you to analyze the text in a way that\nmore ordinary books don't, but it tends to lead to the conclusion that\nevery mystery Wolfe sets has a solution.>>\n\nI refer you to the motto/colophon of the Urth Archive web site. It is Wolfe\nspeaking through the mouth of Agia...\n\n    -- Dave Lebling\n    (aka vizcacha)"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "\"Do you think there are answers to everything here? Is that true in the\nplace you come from?\"\n\nDave,\n\nThe lines above are what you are referring to as the \"motto/colophon of the\nUrth Archive web site.\" (I include them for the sake of anyone who doesn't\nwant to take the trouble of browsing to the Urth web site.) A funny thing"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "about that motto... I suggested it. On May 2, 1998, I wrote:\nI am rereading TBotNS and I have come across a passage that I think makes a\ngood epigraph for this discussion group. It is in Vol. 1, Ch. 20, (p. 125\nof the Orb edition _Shadow & Claw_ at the top of the page). Agia is\nreplying to Serverian's questions about the Botanic Gardens and says:\n\n\"I don't know. Do you think there are answers to everything here? Is that\ntrue in the place you come from?\""
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Then, in a message dated the same day, you wrote:\n* William Ansley's epigraph\n\nWonderful epigraph!  I hereby petition Ranjit to add it to the Archive\nWeb Pages, and the digest. As they say in alt.folklore.urban, \"Motto!\""
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "And, shortly thereafter, if I recall correctly, Ranjit made it so.\n\nKinda ironic, huh?\n\nWilliam Ansley"
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