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  "thread": {
    "id": 2503,
    "subject": "PEACE: End time &The visit to Van Ness",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2000-12-10T13:09:11+00:00",
    "last": "2000-12-10T13:09:11+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0030-0190@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Roy C. Lackey",
        "address": "rclackey at stic.net"
      },
      "date": "2000-12-10T13:09:11+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re:PEACE: End time &The visit to Van Ness",
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          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Adam, re: the end-of-the-world hypothesis:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Not my suggestion.  It may have been Roy Lackey's, or mantis's, who\nhave both touched on the \"end-of-the-world\" hypothesis (another hint\nI wish mantis would flesh out!)."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Not I."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Adam wrote:\nI wrote \"Weer's narration of the start of the visit has, to me, a\ndreamlike quality\".  For the sake of completeness, I might as well state\nwhat makes me say this."
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          "text": "I agree about the \"dreamlike quality\", but I think an even more telling\ndetail in the passage is that when Weer enters the waiting room he sees five\npeople, one of whom is himself. This brings to mind the common phenomenon in\ndreams of being both observer and participant.\n\nRoy"
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