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  "thread": {
    "id": 1916,
    "subject": "Alchemical imagery",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1999-11-03T21:25:52+00:00",
    "last": "1999-11-03T21:25:52+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0373@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan Rabin",
        "address": "danrabin at a.crl.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-11-03T21:25:52+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Alchemical imagery",
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          "text": "Isn't the term \"azoth\" for the element mercury alchemical in origin?\n\nI would guess that Wolfe's use of alchemy is on a par with his use of\nKabbalah: a nice system to plunder for vocabulary and images, but not\nsomething he actually believes in (as I think he told Jim Jordan).\n\n  -- Dan Rabin"
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