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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/246",
    "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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  "archive": "urth",
  "thread": {
    "id": 246,
    "subject": "Digest urth.v005.n042",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "1997-11-02T17:30:40+00:00",
    "last": "1997-11-03T08:32:25+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0005-0374@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Paul C Duggan",
        "address": "pduggan at world.std.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-11-02T17:30:40+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: Digest urth.v005.n042",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "observation, after reading Cordwainer Smith's \"A Planet Named Shayol,\" \nthat where at one time people wrote gory descriptions of Hell with the\npurpose of putting a genuine fear of God into people, several modern\nscience fiction writers have written gory stories about Hell with the\n(seemingly intended) effect of making the reader say, \"surely this cannot\nbe.\" "
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Who else? I'm curious."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Niven's \"Inferno\"?\n\n\"I am an impure thinker. I am hurt, swayed, shaken, |  paul           + | +\nelated, disillusioned, shocked, comforted, and I    |                 --|--\nhave to transmit my mental experiences lest I die.\" |                 + | +\n                     --  Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy    |  pduggan at world.std.com"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0005-0375@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Straight",
        "address": "straight at email.unc.edu"
      },
      "date": "1997-11-03T08:32:25+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Re: Digest urth.v005.n042",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0005-0374@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "On Sun, 2 Nov 1997, Paul C Duggan wrote:\n\n[Posted from URTH, a mailing list about Gene Wolfe's New Sun and other works]"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 3,
          "text": "observation, after reading Cordwainer Smith's \"A Planet Named Shayol,\" \nthat where at one time people wrote gory descriptions of Hell with the\npurpose of putting a genuine fear of God into people, several modern\nscience fiction writers have written gory stories about Hell with the\n(seemingly intended) effect of making the reader say, \"surely this cannot\nbe.\" "
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Who else? I'm curious."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Niven's \"Inferno\"?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Arguably, Harlan Elison's \"I Have No Mouth But I Must Scream\" can be read\nthis way. \n\n-Rostrum"
        }
      ]
    }
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