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  "thread": {
    "id": 2090,
    "subject": "Haunted Boardinghouse and a 1 - 2 - 3",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2000-01-25T14:49:48+00:00",
    "last": "2000-01-25T14:49:48+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0723@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Urash, Tom",
        "address": "turash at firstam.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-01-25T14:49:48+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Haunted Boardinghouse and a 1 - 2 - 3",
      "in_reply_to": null,
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          "text": "-----Original Message-----\nFrom:\tJim Jordan [SMTP:jbjordan at gnt.net]\nSent:\tTuesday, January 25, 2000 12:15 PM\nTo:\turth at lists.best.com\nSubject:\t(urth) Haunted Boardinghouse"
        },
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          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Now, is there anyone who would be so kind as to translate all the Latin\nbits in \"The Haunted Boardinghouse\"? [I know that some of it is explained\nin context, but I can't come up with a good guess for some of the phrases\ntowards the end].\n\nWilliam Ansley"
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          "text": "\tNow there is a story that left me confused! It reminded me of an\nepisode\nof the Simpsons, starting at one place, moving a lot of other places, and\nwinding up a different story altogether. I've got to reread it and see if\nI\ncan pick up thematic continuity. Anybody want to share an analysis with\nus?\n\tAny connection with the boardinghouse in *Free Life Free*? Both are\n\"America.\" Are there Wizard of Oz allusions in \"Haunted B.\"?\n\nNutria"
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          "text": "\t \n\n\tAgreed! This was the most perplexing, for moi, of the lot. I need to\nread this once again, but I'll wait a bit to see if anyone comes back with\nsome translations. Other than a shade of \"Free Live Free\" {I guess I missed\nthe Oz allusion(s)}, I was also in mind of John Crowley's \"Little Big\",\nanother architecturally haunting story I've been meaning to read again for\nmany years. \n\n\tQuick opinion: the substance given to Jo An in the 1 - 2 - 3 story\nseems to be heroin from the description of its color to the immediate\neffects upon and subsequent death, of the girl. I certainly wouldn't deem\nher death a suicide as much as I would an accidental poisoning - she was\nsimply ignorant of what she'd gotten her hands on and how far she could go\nwith it. Did the previous civilization use the phone and the \"heroin\" for\nsuicide? Or is this just evidence of their decadence; how low they'd fallen\nmorally/spiritually? I have a hard time with the mass suicide\ninterpretation. This seems like a civilization too selfish for the\nfanaticism necessary for such dramatics.\n\n\t Tom "
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