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  "thread": {
    "id": 2189,
    "subject": "an observation",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2000-04-12T15:39:22+00:00",
    "last": "2000-04-12T15:39:22+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0898@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "mark millman",
        "address": "millman at us.ncipher.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-04-12T15:39:22+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) an observation",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "depth": 0,
          "text": "A friend of mine who doesn't subscribe to Urth or Whorl \nmade the following remarks, which I thought interesting,\nand urged him to post.  He declined, but told me that I \nmight do so.\n\nPlease forgive me for posting this to both lists; but it con-\ncerns the topics of both, and so I'm doing it in case there's \nanyone out there who subscribes to only one."
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          "text": "On Tuesday 11 April 2000 at 6:15:35 pm PDT, Sean wrote:\nIf you wish, you may submit the following observations \nin my stead:\n\nThe sequence of long novels that Wolfe has produced \nsuggests a descent from a golden age, moving from \nSeverian's *Book of Gold*, to a *Book of Silk*, and \nnow a *Book of Horn*.  Likewise, our protagonists \ndescend in the scope of their powers, from the Conciliator \nhimself to our sailor Horn, whose feet of clay extend up to \nhis neck.  Of course, the sequence is not temporally linear in \nthat Urth, but in our Earth that's the way things have been \nwritten.  Cool, eh?\n\n--Sean"
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          "text": "Nacre/Mark Millman"
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