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  "thread": {
    "id": 2151,
    "subject": "A Haunting Similarity?",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2000-03-13T19:54:30+00:00",
    "last": "2000-03-13T19:54:30+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0839@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Nigel Price",
        "address": "nigelprice1 at compuserve.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-03-13T19:54:30+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) A Haunting Similarity?",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "\"Talarican\" wrote..."
        },
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          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Even if \"One-Two-Three\" isn't a New Sun story, I think we can still agree\nthat its extinct peoples of Earth have much in common with the\ninhabitants\nof the nearly forgotten decadent stellar empire ages before Urth. And\nthat\nenigmatic story title suggests selfishness. (yes, I remember that Bugs\nBunny\ncartoon, too...)"
        },
        {
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          "text": "Sorry, I haven't been concentrating for the last, um... well, about nine\nmonths, I suppose.  Has anyone else suggested yet that \"One-Two-Three for\nMe\" is in some rather tenuous respects a science-fictional retelling of M R\nJames' classic ghost story, \"Oh, whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad\"? \nInstead of the antique whistle in James' story, the vindictive \"ghost\" is\nsummoned by a call on an ancient cell phone, and instead of a thing of wind\nand cloth, the \"ghost\" is a drug dealer.  Both stories feature minor\nexcavation and archaeology, and if the titles aren't really that similar,\nthey do at least share the common feature of being the sinisterly seductive\npromises of the mysterious evil figures summoned in each story.\n\nNigel"
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