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    "note": "Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it.  Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.",
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  "thread": {
    "id": 2292,
    "subject": "re Evan S Barnable",
    "messages": 4,
    "voices": 4,
    "first": "2000-06-26T14:45:11+00:00",
    "last": "2000-06-27T08:18:04+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0029-0078@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Allan Lloyd",
        "address": "lloyd at nexus.kc3.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "2000-06-26T20:18:03+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) re Evan S Barnable",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "I've just been re-reading Little Big (prompted by the discussion on this\ngroup) and by some wierd coincidence, just reached the page in Letters\nto Santa where Smoky reveals his real name.\n  Some-one asked what the S stands for. Does no-one get the joke?\n\n  Evan S. = evanesce = disappearing from sight, fading, or maybe\nghost-like or even Smoky\n\n          Allan"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0029-0079@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Andre-Driussi",
        "address": "mantis at sirius.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-06-26T14:45:11+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) re Evan S Barnable",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0029-0078@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "Allan wrote:\nI've just been re-reading Little Big (prompted by the discussion on this\ngroup) and by some wierd coincidence, just reached the page in Letters\nto Santa where Smoky reveals his real name.\n Some-one asked what the S stands for. Does no-one get the joke?\n\n Evan S. = evanesce = disappearing from sight, fading, or maybe\nghost-like or even Smoky"
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        {
          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "Yowie!  Looks right to me . . . and since \"Evan S.\" = \"Smoky\" (and it was\nprobably the too-clever relatives who cooked up \"Smoky\" directly from \"Evan\nS.\") then it would be redundant for S itself to equal \"Smoky.\"  Meaning\nthat the S remains another hidden name, another one of those tough little\neaster eggs without any real answer, core, yoke, or candy picture inside:\nJohn Crowley often hides these in his fictions.\n\n=mantis="
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0029-0080@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "William Ansley",
        "address": "wansley at warwick.net"
      },
      "date": "2000-06-26T22:05:53+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) re Evan S Barnable",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0029-0079@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "I've just been re-reading Little Big (prompted by the discussion on this\ngroup) and by some wierd coincidence, just reached the page in Letters\nto Santa where Smoky reveals his real name.\n  Some-one asked what the S stands for. Does no-one get the joke?\n\n  Evan S. = evanesce = disappearing from sight, fading, or maybe\nghost-like or even Smoky\n\n          Allan"
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          "text": "Kudos, Allen!\n\nI re-read _Little, Big_ recently and quite carefully too, I might \nadd, but I missed this completely. An excellent catch.\n\nAnd it nicely explains why Crowley reveals Smoky's real first name \n(however briefly) while keeping mum about what his middle initial \nstands for. I was wondering about that! Thank you.\n\nWilliam Ansley"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0029-0083@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alex David Groce",
        "address": "alex_groce at gs246.sp.cs.cmu.edu"
      },
      "date": "2000-06-27T08:18:04+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) re Evan S Barnable",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0029-0080@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
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          "text": "William Ansley said (congratulating Allen):"
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          "kind": "quote",
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          "text": "And it nicely explains why Crowley reveals Smoky's real first name\n(however briefly) while keeping mum about what his middle initial\nstands for. I was wondering about that! Thank you. "
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        {
          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "In fact, it seems more than just plausible that Smoky's middle initial\ndoesn't stand for anything--remember that he wears \"A Suit of\nTruman's\" to be married in and that the 'S' in Harry S. Truman is\nwithout further signification.  I think that's the solution to\nthe middle initial mystery."
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          "text": "\"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.\" John 8:32\n--\nAlex David Groce (agroce+ at cs.cmu.edu)\nPh.D. Student, Carnegie Mellon University - Computer Science Department\n8112 Wean Hall (412)-268-3066\nhttp://www.cs.cmu.edu/~agroce"
        }
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