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  "thread": {
    "id": 1874,
    "subject": "Re; geography",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1999-10-27T20:11:20+00:00",
    "last": "1999-10-27T20:11:20+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0287@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alice Turner",
        "address": "akt at attglobal.net"
      },
      "date": "1999-10-27T20:11:20+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re; geography",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "How funny. I just this second popped off my last message, addressed to Roy,\nand --ping--this new digest came in, topped with Ratso's reasoning."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "The Slime (Alga) suggested long ago that because of the clearly Byzantine\ncharacter of the Commonwealth, we are really in the Mediterranean. She\nmade\na valiant case for it, but it did not persuade many (any?), and she may\nnot\nhold to it any longer. (Alga?)"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I do, I do."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Alga's thesis might be salvaged if we are in a physical SA location, near\nBuenos Aires, but the cultural geography is Mediterrean-esque.\nDoesn't the Long Sun somewhere say that the Spanish culture of Viron came\nfrom people living near to Pas/Typhon? That might be another indication of\nSouth America."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "See last message. Actually, you might consider Spain."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "My own thinking started by noticing that Blind Ultan is Borges, and that\nNessus looks like a contraction of Buenos Aires (as Meeya Meefla in\nCordwainer Smith is Miami, Fla.). But the Ascians being from the north,\nthe\nhot lands, and also from a continent north of the hot lands, seems to\nsettle the question."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Oh, yeah? Nessus, as you of all people should know, is part of Wolfe's\ngallows humor in this book. Nessus is the centaur who bloodies the cloak of\ndeath, Gyoll is the river of Hel (Nifleheim) and there are a number of other\nunderworldy references.\n\n(Remember that old song \"Mona Lisa?\" I used to sing Meeya Meefla to\nthat....)\n\nBTW, apologies for a partial repeat message that will come through. I'm\nhaving some problems with my server.\n\n-alga"
        }
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