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  "thread": {
    "id": 2384,
    "subject": "Digest urth.v029.n058",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2000-09-04T04:04:46+00:00",
    "last": "2000-09-07T09:59:13+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0029-0207@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David Duffy",
        "address": "davidd at qimr.edu.au"
      },
      "date": "2000-09-04T04:04:46+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: Digest urth.v029.n058",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "From: \"James Jordan\" <jbjordan at gnt.net>\nSubject: Re: (urth) Parkroads (the new Suzanne Delage)\n    One would think that the ship would be, in some sense, the Church, and\nits demi-god captain, in some sense, Christ. But that does not seem to work,\n...but Chang did not strike me as very close to a Christ figure.\n...So, perhaps the characters, in their\neastward movement, are making a big mistake. The ship, then, would be an\nanti-Church, and Chang would be an anti-Christ. The characters need to turn"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Not having read the story, is it the Ship of Fools?"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0029-0210@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Peter Westlake",
        "address": "peter at harlequin.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "2000-09-07T09:59:13+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Re: Digest urth.v029.n058",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0029-0207@digest.urth.net>",
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        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "At 14:04 2000-09-04 +1000, David Duffy wrote:\n\nFrom: \"James Jordan\" <jbjordan at gnt.net>\nSubject: Re: (urth) Parkroads (the new Suzanne Delage)\n    One would think that the ship would be, in some sense, the Church, and\nits demi-god captain, in some sense, Christ. But that does not seem to work,\n...but Chang did not strike me as very close to a Christ figure.\n...So, perhaps the characters, in their\neastward movement, are making a big mistake. The ship, then, would be an\nanti-Church, and Chang would be an anti-Christ. The characters need to turn"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Not having read the story, is it the Ship of Fools?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I don't think so - it has a Captain, for one thing, and the Parks are\nnot shown as having any particular vices. As for Chang being the\nAnti-Christ, he really doesn't play a big enough part in the story\nfor that, I think. Thanks for the ideas, though!\n\nPeter."
        }
      ]
    }
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