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  "archive": "urth",
  "thread": {
    "id": 2299,
    "subject": "ES Question",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2000-06-28T15:01:55+00:00",
    "last": "2000-06-28T16:26:52+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0029-0091@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jim Jordan",
        "address": "jbjordan at gnt.net"
      },
      "date": "2000-06-28T16:26:52+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) ES Question",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "For you Crowley experts:\n\n\tDumb me, no doubt, but a mystery left in my mind from Engine Summer is\nthat the people never seem to eat any food and seem to be sustained\nentirely on St. Bea's Bread smoke. Okay, okay, allusions to marijuana\nmaybe. But as this is an SF tale, something other than magic must be at\nwork. Rush and his buddy seem to last a whole winter with no food, in a\ntrance. \n\tI'm sure someone has this figured out. So do me a favor, whydoncha, and\nlemme in on the answer.\n\nNutria"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0029-0092@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Andre-Driussi",
        "address": "mantis at sirius.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-06-28T15:01:55+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) ES Question",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0029-0091@digest.urth.net>",
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "For you Crowley experts:\n\nDumb me, no doubt, but a mystery left in my mind from Engine Summer is\nthat the people never seem to eat any food and seem to be sustained\nentirely on St. Bea's Bread smoke. Okay, okay, allusions to marijuana\nmaybe. But as this is an SF tale, something other than magic must be at\nwork. Rush and his buddy seem to last a whole winter with no food, in a\ntrance.\nI'm sure someone has this figured out. So do me a favor, whydoncha, and\nlemme in on the answer."
        },
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          "text": "Not that this is a final answer, of course, bfwiw I thought the allusion\nwas to hashish rather than marijuana.  And \"hash\" is the name of a\nfoodstuff, too.\n\nAs for the sfnal rational, the stuff was brought back by an interstellar\nprobe.  Like you said before, mana from heaven.\n\nThe winter they spent in a trance, that was due to a different substance,\nwasn't it?  (Probably one of the daughters of medicine: those four little\npots.  One was birth allowance, one was lighten the load, one was near\nimmortality)  Because the St. Bea's Bread was something they smoked three\nor four times a day, no big deal; but that winter in the treehouse was\nsomething different for Rush That Speaks, iirc.\n\nGo Ask Alice, I think she knows.\n\n=mantis="
        }
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    }
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