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  "thread": {
    "id": 2397,
    "subject": "list name / PEACE",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2000-10-17T15:05:47+00:00",
    "last": "2000-10-17T15:05:47+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0030-0004@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alex David Groce",
        "address": "alex_groce at gs246.sp.cs.cmu.edu"
      },
      "date": "2000-10-17T15:05:47+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) list name / PEACE",
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          "text": "So when did the disaster happen, anyway?  I saw Michael's post about\nPEACE, then a great silence (but I assumed nobody wanted to talk about\nPEACE, which discouraged me from saying anything myself).\n\n\nWhat I was going to say was:\n\nI have a hypothesis that PEACE is \"set\" considerably in the future of\nWeer's day--not just after his death, but after a long time, quite\npossibly after the extinction/migration of man.  I picture a midwest\nleft fallow.  However, when I tried to write this idea up as something\nother than a haunting image, the suggestive bits seemed merely\nsuggestive.  The key hints I believe are present are:\n\n1.  The fact that Weer's elm has grown VERY large and fallen in a\nstorm.  This would actually put some limit on the time, I suppose--the\nlifetime of an old elm.\n\n2.  The skull in the cave and its discovery, with the general idea of\nthe remains of long dead cultures/times.\n\n3.  The Lovecraftian lich, suggesting that Weer and Gold are spirits\ncalled up from the vasty deep (which to me implies a deeper time abyss\nthan simply a few years after Weer's death).\n\n4.  Finally, the story of the sidhe (with that telling line \"And in\ntime men, too, will pass, as every man who lives long learns in his\nown body\")."
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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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