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  "thread": {
    "id": 2208,
    "subject": "Stoppard quote",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2000-04-26T16:53:56+00:00",
    "last": "2000-04-26T16:53:56+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0933@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jeremy Crampton",
        "address": "jcrampto at osf1.gmu.edu"
      },
      "date": "2000-04-26T16:53:56+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Stoppard quote",
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          "text": "I've always liked this quote from Tom Stoppard ever since I read it in 1983:\n\n\"Meeting a friend in a corridor Wittgenstein said: 'Tell me, why do people\nalways say it was *natural* for men to assume that the sun went round the\nearth, rather than that the earth was rotating?' His friend said, 'Well,\nobviously, because it *looks* as if the sun is going round the earth.' To\nwhich the philosopher replied, 'Well, what would it have looked like if it\nhad looked as if the earth was rotating?'\n\n--T. Stoppard, _Jumpers_\n__\nJeremy W. Crampton\t\t         http://geog.gmu.edu    jcrampto at gmu.edu\nDept. of Geography & Earth Science\n[MS 1E2]\t\t\t\t’Tis true; there’s magic in the web of it.\nGeorge Mason University\t\t\t\t\t--Othello (III.iv.69)\nFairfax, Va 22030"
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