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  "thread": {
    "id": 2063,
    "subject": "Tzadkiel",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2000-01-09T15:36:48+00:00",
    "last": "2000-01-09T21:25:29+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0675@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jim Jordan",
        "address": "jbjordan at gnt.net"
      },
      "date": "2000-01-09T15:36:48+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Tzadkiel",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "At 12:13 PM 4/25/99 -0400, Alga wrote:\n\n   \"Yours is a race of pawns,\" Tzadkiel told me. \"You move forward only,\nunless we move you back to begin the game again. But not all the pieces on\nthe board are pawns.\""
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "\tGiven *Strange Travelers,* we now recall that pawns advance until they\nbecome queens. The other pieces may look bigger and be able to do more, but\nat the end, the pawn becomes the bride of Christ. \n\nNutria"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0682@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Nicholas Gevers",
        "address": "vermoulian at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-01-09T21:25:29+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Tzadkiel",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0028-0675@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "The chess analogy arises in \"To the Seventh\", a story\nI found problematic in various ways. Nutria, do you\nthink God's shifting of focus to another part of the\nboard near the end will save Chance and co, diverting\nSatan long enough for the pawn to queen? And: why the\ncomic book texture of the universe portrayed? I\nthought Wolfe might be implying Chance's cosmos is an\ninferior parody of reality, its \"God\" a demiurge..."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "--- Jim Jordan <jbjordan at gnt.net> wrote:\nAt 12:13 PM 4/25/99 -0400, Alga wrote:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "   \"Yours is a race of pawns,\" Tzadkiel told me."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "\"You move forward only,\nunless we move you back to begin the game again.\nBut not all the pieces on\nthe board are pawns.\"\n\n\tGiven *Strange Travelers,* we now recall that pawns\nadvance until they\nbecome queens. The other pieces may look bigger and\nbe able to do more, but\nat the end, the pawn becomes the bride of Christ. \n\nNutria"
        }
      ]
    }
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