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  "thread": {
    "id": 2166,
    "subject": "'Ridden Like Beats?' That Sounds Painful...",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2000-03-26T23:28:04+00:00",
    "last": "2000-03-27T18:19:38+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0863@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Talarican",
        "address": "exultnttalarican at mindspring.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-03-26T23:28:04+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) 'Ridden Like Beats?' That Sounds Painful...",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "<quote>\n'  The novelist [!] Gene\nWolfe makes an identical, albeit lovelier, observation:\n\nWe say, 'I will,' and 'I will not,' and imagine ourselves ...our own\nmasters, whhen the\ntruth is that our masters are sleeping.  One wakes within us, and we are\nridden like beats, though the rider is but some hitherto unguessed part of\nourselves.\n\nQuick, those of you with Severian-like memory, where is the quote from?\n<unquote>\n\nI know! I know! BNS, Sword,  XVII \"The Challenge\". Severian is explaining to\nus at length why he is describing in such detail the episode wherein he\nmeets \"the shopkeeper's sister\" (Agia) and gets the serious hots for her. He\nsuggests the above as a reason why Ymar got up and followed the dog in the\nstory. Really confusing.\n\nNo, I don't have Severian-like memory, just happened to have re-read that\npassage, researching more IAQ's.Whew! I feel an IAQ coming on already!\n\n(think if GW were to hear of THAT typo, he'd write it into a story\nsomewhere?)"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0865@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Daniel Fusch",
        "address": "dfusch at hotmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-03-27T18:19:38+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) 'Ridden Like Beats?' That Sounds Painful...",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0028-0863@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "I wonder...would that be beats as in radishes, or beats as in poets?"
        },
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          "text": "From: \"Talarican\" <exultnttalarican at mindspring.com>\nReply-To: urth at lists.best.com\nTo: urth at lists.best.com\nSubject: (urth) 'Ridden Like Beats?' That Sounds Painful...\nDate: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 23:28:04 -0500\n\n<quote>\n'  The novelist [!] Gene\nWolfe makes an identical, albeit lovelier, observation:\n\nWe say, 'I will,' and 'I will not,' and imagine ourselves ...our own\nmasters, whhen the\ntruth is that our masters are sleeping.  One wakes within us, and we are\nridden like beats, though the rider is but some hitherto unguessed part of\nourselves.\n\nQuick, those of you with Severian-like memory, where is the quote from?\n<unquote>\n\nI know! I know! BNS, Sword,  XVII \"The Challenge\". Severian is explaining \nto\nus at length why he is describing in such detail the episode wherein he\nmeets \"the shopkeeper's sister\" (Agia) and gets the serious hots for her. \nHe\nsuggests the above as a reason why Ymar got up and followed the dog in the\nstory. Really confusing.\n\nNo, I don't have Severian-like memory, just happened to have re-read that\npassage, researching more IAQ's.Whew! I feel an IAQ coming on already!\n\n(think if GW were to hear of THAT typo, he'd write it into a story\nsomewhere?)\n\n\n\nworks"
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