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  "thread": {
    "id": 2324,
    "subject": "Digest urth.v029.n036",
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    "first": "2000-07-27T21:47:28+00:00",
    "last": "2000-07-27T21:47:28+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<urth-v0029-0125@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Peter Stephenson",
        "address": "pws at pwstephenson.fsnet.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "2000-07-27T21:47:28+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: Digest urth.v029.n036",
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          "text": "From: Nigel Price <NigelPrice1 at compuserve.com>\nDid you hear the reading of \"In the Heart of the Sea\" on Radio 4 recently?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Missed that, sounds fascinating.  I wonder why it's in fashion at the\nmoment?"
        },
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          "kind": "quote",
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          "text": "As to what happens to Severian at and immediately after his passage through\nthe gate of Nessus, well, you do gradually get bits and pieces of the\nstory, a detail here and there throughout the length of TCotC. I'm\nrereading the whole thing very slowly as part of the research for my paper\nfor the symposium at the end of August. Will you be there?"
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          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "I've been thinking I really ought to go...  For ages I've been planning an\nessay on time themes in the Book, and I have this inferiority complex about\nshowing my face in polite society until I actually sit down and write it."
        },
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          "text": "From: \"Tony Ellis\" <tony.ellis at futurenet.co.uk>\nSlightly more on topic: one of the conceits in Barnes' novel is the idea\nof history repeating itself, but as a whimper rather than a bang. (The\nimage he uses, as I recall, is the way a belch faintly brings back the\ntaste of the hotdog you had earlier in the day.) This certainly chimes\nwith the idea of Hethor standing in for Simon of Cyrene, and indeed with\nthe idea of Severian standing in for Christ."
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          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "`And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,\nSlouches towards Bethlehem to be born?'\n\n(Yeats, `The Second Coming', from the collection `Michael Robartes and the\nDancer'.)  There's another essay I should have written ages ago.  Sigh."
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          "text": "Peter Stephenson <pws at pwstephenson.fsnet.co.uk>\nWork: pws at CambridgeSiliconRadio.com\nWeb: http://www.pwstephenson.fsnet.co.uk"
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