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  "thread": {
    "id": 2074,
    "subject": "one-two-three for me, revised",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2000-01-17T23:02:49+00:00",
    "last": "2000-01-17T23:02:49+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0698@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "William H. Ansley",
        "address": "wansley at warwick.net"
      },
      "date": "2000-01-17T23:02:49+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) one-two-three for me, revised",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "I don't find Nicholas Gevers attempts to find a link between \"One-Two-Three\nfor Me\" and \"And When They Appear\" to be convincing. If there is another\nstory that will help to explain \"One-Two-Three for Me,\" we will have to\nlook for it outside of _Strange Travelers_. Another story that came to my\nmind is \"The Most Beautiful Woman on the World\" in _Endangered Species_. I\ndon't think the stories are linked in any direct way, but they both share\nhave a story within a story and ii is very hard to be sure what is going on\nin either the inner or the outer story."
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          "text": "I accidentally sent out this message before I was quite done. That last\nsentence should be replaced by the following:\n\nI don't think the stories are linked in any direct way, but they both are\nscience fiction stories that seem to involve a supernatural event which\nresults in the death of a woman. They both contain a story within a story\nand it is very hard to be sure what is going on in either the inner\n(supernatural) or the outer (science fiction) story, at least in part\nbecause of a lack of information.\n\nAnd I will add a final indication that Wolfe wasn't entirely serious in\nwriting this story. On page 43 of _Strange Travelers_, there is the\nfollowing passage:\n\n---------------------\n... her bot said it was for calling people who weren't there, and was well\nknown to science and all that. So we asked what the buttons were for and\nthe bot said they were to say who you wanted.\n     \"That's crazy,\" Jo An said, \"why not just say who you want, like we do?\"\n     And the bot said that back then people mostly thought they were too\ngood to talk to machines unless to call them names, so they did this.\n---------------------\n\nNow, I don't find this a convincing explanation, personally. Someone is\nhaving some fun here. It could be Jak or the bot, but my money is on Wolfe.\n\nWilliam Ansley"
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