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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/2149",
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  "thread": {
    "id": 2149,
    "subject": "More 5HC Variant texts",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2000-03-12T10:53:39+00:00",
    "last": "2000-03-16T03:48:24+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0836@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Andre-Driussi",
        "address": "mantis at sirius.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-03-12T10:53:39+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) More 5HC Variant texts",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "Well remembered Talarican!"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Talarican wrote:\nI recall when I read the hardback library copy, I was struck by one\nparticular passage that I was positive had been added from the older\npaperback version. It was in \"A Story\", where the Old Wise One was\nexplaining to Sandwalker how the Shadow Childrens' \"singing\" worked. In the\npaperback version, as I recall, he said something like \"Shake your hands.\nNow imagine your hands gone. That is what we shake. You may call it nothing,\nbut what you think is nothing holds all things apart. When it is gone, all\nthe worlds are born\". I seem to recall the hardback version continued with\nanother new sentence, not present in the paperback, which indicated this\n\"birth\" would follow the collapse of the universe. (so the Shadow Childrens'\n\"singing\" vibrates Einstein's Cosmological Constant, or Fred Hoyle's\nC-field? <g>)"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Here is the 1976 Ace version (p. 95 in both the $1.75 and $2.50 version <g>):\n\n\"That which you call nothing is what holds all things apart.  When it is\ngone, all the worlds will be born.  But now listen to me.\"\n\nHere is the Scribners 1972(?) hardcover edition (p. 88):\n\n\"That which you call nothing is what holds all things apart.  When it is\ngone, all the worlds will come together in a fiery death from which new\nworlds will be born.  But now listen to me.\"\n\nThis is all I can do, since I don't have the ORBIT version.  But clearly\nthere is a difference between the Ace paperback and the Scribners\nhardcover!\n\nSounds like a case for Robert Borski!\n\n=mantis="
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0838@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Damien Broderick",
        "address": "d.broderick at english.unimelb.edu.au"
      },
      "date": "2000-03-13T04:42:46+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) More 5HC Variant texts",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0028-0836@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Here is the 1976 Ace version (p. 95 in both the $1.75 and $2.50 version <g>):\n\n\"That which you call nothing is what holds all things apart.  When it is\ngone, all the worlds will be born.  But now listen to me.\"\n\nHere is the Scribners 1972(?) hardcover edition (p. 88):\n\n\"That which you call nothing is what holds all things apart.  When it is\ngone, all the worlds will come together in a fiery death from which new\nworlds will be born.  But now listen to me.\""
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Looks to me like a classic typesetting error first time around, corrected \nlater. Regard the break point: two instances of `worlds will', separated by \nabout a line of text. No need to get cosmogonic abt it.\n\nDamien Broderick"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0852@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Damien Broderick",
        "address": "d.broderick at english.unimelb.edu.au"
      },
      "date": "2000-03-16T03:48:24+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) More 5HC Variant texts",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0028-0838@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Here is the 1976 Ace version"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Here is the Scribners 1972(?) hardcover edition"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Looks to me like a classic typesetting error first time around, corrected \nlater."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "D'oh! My careless reading, as bad as the luckless typesetter's. I stupidly \ntook the first cite as the earlier (on-top-ology recapitulates file-ology). \nThe typo dynamics remain valid, however, as someone else noted.\n\nDamien Broderick"
        }
      ]
    }
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