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  "thread": {
    "id": 189,
    "subject": "Benighted in America",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1997-08-28T16:39:41+00:00",
    "last": "1997-08-28T16:39:41+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0004-0280@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Peter Cash",
        "address": "cash at rsn.hp.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-08-28T16:39:41+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Benighted in America",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "depth": 2,
          "text": "I wrote:\nNo. On the second day, he ambles around the North of the city, gradually\ncoming to realize how deformed the Americans are. The crucial thing is\nthat the \"fear\" passage cannot have been written any earlier than the\nthird day. This is because he speaks of the fear as coming on him the\nprevious day. This cannot have been on the first day--the day of his\narrival--for his narrative of that day is clearly upbeat. It may have\nbeen on the second day, which ends with his realization that the\nAmericans are more deformed than he had thought. There may even be one\nor more entire days missing here; there's no way to tell. But one thing\nis sure: the \"fear\" passage _cannot_ have been written earlier than the\nthird day. Everything follows from this."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Sgt. Rock,\nCan't buy that. You've been misled by the non-sequential form, which starts\nwith evening, \nwhere?\ngoes back to morning (which is upbeat, indeed, but becomes\nless so)"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "can you give me a clue as to where this passage begins?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": ", then night, then afternoon---the clue is that he walks\nnorth--then early evening, then night (written the next morning). Check it\nout again, sir.\n-alga-"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Uh...Ma'am, my poor limited military-issue brain went to a lot of work\nto provide that analysis...and you're just going to _say_ I've been\n\"misled\"? No doubt I have--I'm just a non-com, after all--but I need\nmore help than this to lift myself out of the morass of ignorance in\nwhich I find myself. Oh, have pity!\n\nSgt. Rock\n\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\n                 Die Welt ist alles, was Zerfall ist.   \n                  (apologies to Ludwig Wittgenstein)    \n        email: cash at convex dot com (sorry, spam prevention)"
        }
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