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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/1992",
    "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": 1992,
    "subject": "Erebus and friends",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1999-12-01T09:58:18+00:00",
    "last": "1999-12-01T19:01:15+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0552@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Tony Ellis",
        "address": "tony.ellis at futurenet.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "1999-12-01T09:58:18+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Erebus and friends",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Daniel Fusch wrote:\nCertainly, there is never any mention in the Book of how these entities\narrived."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "But there is. We've been down this road before. Right at the\nvery end of The Shadow of the Torturer, Jonas tells the\nstory of the woman who comes back with space with a handful\nof magic beans, and threatens to throw them into the ocean.\n\nErebus and friends aren't genetically modified humans like\nBaldanders, they're alien lifeforms. That grow."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0558@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Daniel Fusch",
        "address": "dfusch at hotmail.com"
      },
      "date": "1999-12-01T19:01:15+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Erebus and friends",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0028-0552@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Tony:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "But there is. We've been down this road before. Right at the\nvery end of The Shadow of the Torturer, Jonas tells the\nstory of the woman who comes back with space with a handful\nof magic beans, and threatens to throw them into the ocean.\n\nErebus and friends aren't genetically modified humans like\nBaldanders, they're alien lifeforms. That grow."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "That's interesting--I hadn't thought of that. However, it seems a little \nfarfetched--connecting Erebus & Co. to Jonas' story. Still, an interesting \ntheory. I think I like it."
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}