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  "thread": {
    "id": 1979,
    "subject": "Sev: Satisfactory Conciliator?",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1999-11-23T20:35:30+00:00",
    "last": "1999-11-24T00:45:48+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0523@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Nicholas Gevers",
        "address": "vermoulian at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-11-23T20:35:30+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Sev: Satisfactory Conciliator?",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "With regard to the question of how satisfactory Sev's\ncareer in the Age of the Monarch is as the basis for\nthe legend of the Conciliator: one mustn't forget\nCanog's role as propagandist. His BOTNS, based on\nSev's account of the future given in prison, might be\na very skilful work of prophetic literature--as\npersuasive as the Gospels have been, perhaps. By this\nmeans, a few random miracles could acquire great\nresonance--a comment by Wolfe on the power of the\nwritten word, which records, and supersedes by\noutlasting, mere actions."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0525@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jim Jordan",
        "address": "jbjordan at gnt.net"
      },
      "date": "1999-11-24T00:45:48+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Sev: Satisfactory Conciliator?",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0028-0523@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "At 08:35 PM 11/23/99 -0800, you wrote:\nWith regard to the question of how satisfactory Sev's\ncareer in the Age of the Monarch is as the basis for\nthe legend of the Conciliator: one mustn't forget\nCanog's role as propagandist. His BOTNS, based on\nSev's account of the future given in prison, might be\na very skilful work of prophetic literature--as\npersuasive as the Gospels have been, perhaps. By this\nmeans, a few random miracles could acquire great\nresonance--a comment by Wolfe on the power of the\nwritten word, which records, and supersedes by\noutlasting, mere actions."
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          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "Good thought. Probably more analogous to the prophets, however, than to the\ngospels.\n\nNutria"
        }
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