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  "thread": {
    "id": 2024,
    "subject": "those mirrors",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "1999-12-12T18:16:57+00:00",
    "last": "1999-12-12T18:16:57+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0610@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Damien Broderick",
        "address": "d.broderick at english.unimelb.edu.au"
      },
      "date": "1999-12-12T18:16:57+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) those mirrors",
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          "text": "Stephen Baxter, in a talk for Picocon 13, Imperial College, London, 4\nFebruary 1996, remarked:\n\n< Wells's Time Traveller was an expert in \"physical optics.\" Wells notes,\nin passing, the Traveller's \"seventeen papers\" on the subject in\nPhilosophical Transactions ( The Time Machine , p60.).  >\n\n[HG Wells, The Time Machine , Heinemann 1895. Page numbers in the text\nrefer to Everyman's `Centennial' edition, ed. John Lawton, 1995.]\n\nNo wonder the Time Traveller never came back. He wanders the House Absolute\nto this day, searching for the right mirror.\n\nDamien Broderick"
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