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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/1990",
    "note": "Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it.  Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.",
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  "thread": {
    "id": 1990,
    "subject": "Shadow of the Torturer Video Game?",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1999-11-30T22:59:55+00:00",
    "last": "1999-12-02T12:48:04+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0550@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Fr.Inire",
        "address": "inire at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-11-30T22:59:55+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Shadow of the Torturer Video Game?",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Oh, be still my beating heart...would that it were\ntrue!\n\nNow why would someone just yank that kind of thing out\nof an orifice and make up a line about it? sickos...:-/\n\n=====\nJeff \"My dice hate me!\" Miller\n\"The idea of verifying facts about\nthe world through controlled repetition seems alien to just about everyone\nwith the _possible_ exception of Fr Inire, and he's a bug-eyed space\nmonster . . .\"-Jim Henley\nHeavy Gear Swap @ http://freecenter.digiweb.com/games/severian/swap.html\nGaming to keep War out of RealTime!        '82 GS650G"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0579@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Ron Hale-Evans",
        "address": "rwhe at apocalypse.org"
      },
      "date": "1999-12-02T12:48:04+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Shadow of the Torturer Video Game?",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0028-0550@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "At 10:59 PM 11/30/99 -0800, Fr. Inire wrote:\nOh, be still my beating heart...would that it were\ntrue!\n\nNow why would someone just yank that kind of thing out\nof an orifice and make up a line about it? sickos...:-/"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Well, Padre, my guess is that the impulse was similar to that shown by the\ncharacter in _Peace_ who forged the Necronomicon and other much-desired\nbooks. Some things we want so much that we create them in fiction if we\ncannot have them in reality, even if the fiction is both pleasurable and...\na torture.\n\nRon H-E"
        },
        {
          "kind": "sig",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Ron Hale-Evans: rwhe at apocalypse.org  ... <http://www.apocalypse.org/~rwhe/>\nCenter for Ludic Synergy:        <http://www.ludism.org/>\nKennexions GBG artgame:          <http://kennexions.ludism.org/>\nHexagram-8 I Ching Mailing List: <http://www.apocalypse.org/~rwhe/hex8.html>\nPositive Revolution FAQ:         <http://www.ludism.org/posrev/>"
        }
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